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

. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

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

Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.

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

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.