At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children.

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.

The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

We need more than individual value systems; we need a shared vision. A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive society despite the tensions of daily life. That is what enables them to rise above the conflicts that plague any society.

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.