There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain. – W. Somerset Maugham

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men. – Bernard M. Baruch

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. – Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom, 1941

If a man would move the world, he must first move himself. – Socrates