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.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.