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

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.'

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.

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

Beautiful homes with beautiful flowers

Markings in dry clay disappearOnly when the clay is soft again.Scars upon the self disappearOnly when one becomes soft within.

There can be no peace of mind in love since the advantage one has secured is never anything by a fresh starting-point for further desires.

I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.

I am the vampire at my own veins.

There is no wrong way to be a woman

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.

Register my money, for the money gymnastic. Cause I make it flip now they be lookin all nasty.

If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.

Many would argue that alpinism is art, not sport.