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

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his name or trademark.

Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera - and himself.

Water, that wonderful, flowing medium, the luck of the planet - which would serve humankind in so many ways, and which would give our planet a special character.