“To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of...” — Charles Horton Cooley Quote

“To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.”

“There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to 'Americanize' him.”

“The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.”

“Our aspiration must be to reform, upgrade and enlarge our education system - and to make it relevant to 21st century realities of the digital economy, genomics, robotics and automation.”

“For me, an aspiration is to be respected by my peers, people in the industry.”

“I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.”