Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.

In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.

destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.