The mind is a vagrant thing.... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.

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.

The most valuable real estate in the universe is inside your soul.

Do not settle for labels that presume you will never heal. Believe in yourself. Find a tribe who understands and believes in you too. Don't ever give up.

How is it Lord that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee?

The world is not a rational place.

Some people like to say serendipitous. I like to say magical.

For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily basis. I'm not really interested in writing musical diaries, if you know what I mean.

In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.

We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.