The future never just happened. It was created.

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.