Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we’re going forward to tomorrow or whether we’re going to go past to the – to the back!

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

I’m not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I’m not going to back down.

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

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

Revolutions go not backward.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I was adored once too.

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

I swam underwater for 50 meters at a time and walked the length of the pool underwater, with a brick in each hand, all on a single breath.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

When I’m ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

Bring them on.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

They say miracles are past.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

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.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.