It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.

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.

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels

It's a good day to do great things!

I'm sure lovely girls such as yourselves need not worry about this"—Madame LaRoche begins, and I have a hunch we're about to be cautioned against something we enjoy

My heart keeps begging me for a reason to keep beating, but I'm running out of lies to tell it

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

The scalpel won't make you happy.

Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.

The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.

You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.