One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Bio: John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith was a British broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom.
