An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.

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.'

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

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

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.