“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”
“To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.”
“Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible…. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.”
“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.”
“Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.”
