Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A (best-seller) is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

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.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

Despite all of their flaws and difficulties, these men don't want to walk out on their own lives, leave their wives and children. They want to come home.

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

You realize how much you love someone once that someone is gone…gone forever, and you are filled with regret and sadness.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

It's an utter, utter necessity to renounce war forever. And nothing new can be built until this is done.

The younger generation will come knocking at my door.

Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.

It almost always happens that true, but exaggerated, coloring is more agreeable than absolute coloring.

Simmering resentment saps energy.