Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent solution. People in a hurry will imitate more readily than people at leisure. Hustling thus tends to produce uniformity. And in the deliberate fusing of individuals into a compact group, incessant action will play a considerable role.

People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.