→ Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
→ Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.
→ The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
One of these may be attributed to Daniel J. Boorstin. Which one?
→ While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
→ The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
→ To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
→ To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.