For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

[Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, June 26 1963]

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

My past won't change my future, but my present can.