"... do you know the hallmark of a second-rater? It's resentment
of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who
sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their
own... They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is
a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors.
They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of
mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of
achievement would not be able to bear... Have you ever felt
the longing for someone you could admire? For something,
not to look down at, but up to?"
