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We can never go back and change the past, but we can always start anew.

The past is always with us, like a long shadow.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.

We’ve both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Power corrupts, , absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.