A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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.
The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.
The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.
Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
