A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning.

Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly ... to revere God and be God.

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.