Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.

We may anticipate a state of affairs in which two Great Powers will each be in a position to put an end to the civilization and life of the other, though not without risking its own. We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)