The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the press and media. Celebrities are people who make news, but heroes are people who make history. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

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

The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way over here on this unknown continent. So we must continue to have society that is hospitable to the unexpected, which allows possibilities to develop beyond our own imaginings.

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

The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.