In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward—toward what?

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past, I want it to be in the future.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.