It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.