When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.

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.

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.

Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers.

I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.

People don't really want to be happy. They go out of their way to be miserable.

Being a philanthropist doesn't mean necessarily writing a huge check. It can mean mobilizing your community to start asking questions.

I hope my child will be a good Catholic like me.

Unless that happens, unless you get, you know, kind of integration of activists' concerns and movements, it will be, each one will be 'preaching to the choir'.

Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentleman, I just - he was a worthless shred of human debris.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.