Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.

Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.

Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.

Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.

The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

Worlds of my own creation are erected with walls that are within but a few scant paces of each other. The world that God creates for me has no idea what walls are.

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it.

Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!