The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

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.

Perhaps I was drawn to stories in which people found their true desires because I was a stranger to myself.

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

Your obsession determines what you pay attention to. Your observations are limited to the focus of your mind.

Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.

I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head.

I have always felt better taking a risk than an easier route for what I believe in.

The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.

When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to change the values of the movie.