“Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.”

“Memories remake the past, dreams remake the future.”

“Our memories are thronged with the past; our anticipations range over the future; and it is in the past and the future that we really live. It is so even with the higher animals: they too order their lives by memory and anticipation.”

“Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.”

“Before adolescence, memory is more interested in the future than the past…”

“Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.”

“A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”

“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.”

“Innovation is the key to the future, but basic research is the key to future innovation.”

“The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.”