"Much that is great starts small, ignorant, and useless. […] But today’s beginner is tomorrow’s master."

"Ambition is often—and often purposefully—misidentified with the desire for power, and damned with faint praise, and d…"

"It has taken since time immemorial for us to organize ourselves, biologically and socially, into the functional hiera…"

"[T]he great genie, the granter of wishes—God, in a microcosm—is archetypally trapped in the tiny confines of a lamp a…"

"You do not choose what interests you. It chooses you. Something manifests itself out of the darkness as compelling, a…"

"Who dares wins—if he does not perish. {Quoting the motto of the British Special Air Service.} And who wins also makes…"

"Our own personal motivations begin in hidden form, and remain that way, because we do not want to know what we are up…"

"That is the nature of our ancestors: immensely courageous hunters, defenders, shepherds, voyagers, inventors, warrior…"

"There is a high goal, a mountain peak, a star that shines in the darkness, beckoning above the horizon. Its mere exis…"

"I had to force myself to concentrate, and to breathe, and to keep from saying and meaning “to hell with it” during th…"