“You cannot plan the future by the past.”— Edmund Burke Related Quotes “Great cooking is all about the three ‘p’s: patience, presence, and practice.”— Michael Pollan “I can’t divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.”— Jeff Kinney “Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has yet to come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering”— Ida Scott Taylor McKinney