Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the deed which is good. The morally good agent may perform the deed which is bad. Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.