We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.