The library remains a sacred place for secular folk ["What Libraries Can (Still) Do, " The New York Review Daily, October 26, 2015].

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.

She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened.

Promoting what you don't like, invites more of it to your doorstep. Beat the right drum. ~T.F. Hodge

To worry is to add another hazard.

Do not look to your hope, but to Jesus, the Source of your hope.

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.

Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

If someone says to you, Go to an old-folks home, thats kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.