Time Makes Heroes But Dissolves Celebrities.

What Preoccupies Us, Then, Is Not God As A Fact Of Nature, But As A Fabrication Useful For A God-fearing Society. God Himself Becomes Not A Power But An Image.

Beware Of Charisma . . . Representative Men; Was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 Phrase For The Great Men In A Democracy . . . Is There Some Common Quality Among These Representative Men Who Have Been Most Successful As Our Leaders? I Call It The Need To Be Authentic-or, As Our Dictionaries Tell Us, Conforming To Fact And Therefore Worthy Of Trust, Reliance Or Belief. While The Charismatic Has An Uncanny Outside Source Of Strength, The Authentic Is Strong Because He Is What He Seems To Be.

The Most Important American Addition To The World Experience Was The Simple Surprising Fact Of America. We Have Helped Prepare Mankind For All Its Later Surprises.

. . . The Messiness Of Experience, That May Be What We Mean By Life.

There Is No Disinfectant Like Success.