Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their reactions safely. Similarly, people with great projects afoot habitually look further and more clearly into the future than people who are mired in day-to-day concerns.

The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.

The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give.

At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered balloon, the blue sky, the nude figure.

We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.