Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

I write to discover what I think.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

He hadn’t altogether gotten it himself until this moment of seeing straight through to the soul of her.

I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'.

I had been friendly with people who were in the Communist party and all the rest of the Left forces, which were oriented in the direction of mass action.

Did you know that today will never be tomorrow.

One day, I'll stop making weird faces in pictures. But not today.

We have to see that all regions of India, particularly the east and west, are brought on par in development parameters.

We were such a part of everybody's life in the Second World War. We represented something overseas and at home - a sort of security.

I've always looked at the world as a place where people have done evil things. There are people in the world, for instance, that would describe Americans as evil.