The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

I'm not a person who likes to be conventional.