"…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future."

"There are vivid memories from my childhood - what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union. I suppose, if I wanted to be fair, I could say that I'm trying to settle a personal score. I could dramatize it by saying that I want to bring social justice to farm workers."

"Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that."

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."

"Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity."

"I've always been able to recount things, and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that."

"I have a great memory."

"You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it more as... ..cultivated."

"Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?"

"Certainly, I've never wanted to live on past achievements."

"It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone."

"The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad."

"I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative."

"A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely not happen."

"If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable."

"...great things may come from moments of nothingness."

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."

"Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory." 

The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.

The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me....

“But it has finally hit me: she is neither a concept nor a symbol nor a metaphor. She actually exists: she has warm flesh and a spirit that moves. I never should have lost sight of that warmth and that movement.”

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.”

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.