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We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

It seems like people don't learn from the past.

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.

I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.

We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.