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Again, I was struck by the importance of dignity as a historical force.
“Clearly, I am out, as always, for me, myself, and I,” I wrote in my journal. “I need so much to remember why the book came about in the first place.”
“I wanted to make a difference.” But at Carnegie I saw that this was an abstraction.
“Define a smart risk,” he said.
“A cat who sits on a hot stove will never sit on a hot stove again. But he won’t sit on a cold stove either.”
As Mother Teresa famously said, “If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.”4
