The leader might be analyzed as the one who perceived what could be achieved and did it. p159 - Joseph Campbell

All cultures … have grown out of myths. They are founded on myths. What these myths have given has been inspiration for aspiration. The economic interpretation of history is for the birds. Economics is itself a function of aspiration. It’s what people aspire to that creates the field in which economics works.

A myth is something that has never happened, but is happening all the time.

If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.