One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.

Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!

Quickly seize the moment: only the present is thine.

Today is always partly tomorrow and can only be understood in movement, futuristically, speculatively.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

All our yesterdays are summarized in our now, and all the tomorrows are ours to shape.

The Will-be and the Has-been touch us more nearly than the Is. So we are more tender towards children and old people than to those who are in the prime of life.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.