Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.