There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real.

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

Adventure is a sign of incompetence.

The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.

Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it.

False modesty is better than none.

A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

Intrapersonal communication is a reflection of our daily messages.

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.

The only difference between 'try' and 'triumph' is varying degrees of 'umph'

Envy is not to be conquered but by death.

The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.

There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

God cannot know himself without me.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.