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

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

Our discontent begins by finding false villains whom we can accuse of deceiving us. Next we find false heroes whom we expect to liberate us. The hardest, most discomfiting discovery is that each of us must emancipate himself.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

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

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.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.