The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

The minimum content of natural law is necessary for the survival of any society.

Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.

未来不是我们进入的东西。未来是我们创造的东西。