"The only thing that is truly eternal is the human spirit."
Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.
We are all of us, every day, engaged in the act of creating ourselves.
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.