Charles Mackay “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,” London 1841.

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”

“If you can’t say it, you can’t whistle it, either.” Ludwig Wittgenstein

Hero

I want a hero: an uncommon want
When every year and month sends forth a new one,
Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,
The age discovers he is not the true one.

Byron, Don Juan

Planning

"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult."
E.B. White