Voyages Of Discovery quotes

I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.

In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

After-sales service is more important than assistance before sales. It is through such service that one gets permanent customers.

Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.

Too much me is annoying under any circumstance, but too much me in an essay, however personal, would mar the art. My "character" in the essay is more like a perspective, an angle of vision, a complicating factor, a questioning presence. I don't sit on the sidelines or pretend to objectivity; and I'm not afraid to stick my neck out or to be revealing and vulnerable.

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

a sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.