"The greatest journey starts when a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity."

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."

"To master the mind is to understand that shadows are only cast by the presence of light."

"Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form."

"We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors."

"Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done."

"Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind."