Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

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.

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.

If we don't protect what we have, it will be destroyed.

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.

I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.

I looked around at us all: me in my nightgown, Kiyo bare-chested, Dorian in his extravagant robes, and Tim in his Native getup. God, I muttered, standing up, we all look like the village people.

It's about falling down and getting back up.

Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.