Walter Isaacson Quote

The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies - and our sp...

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

A stranger may find beauty in you yet.

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

For the grateful, there is no room for disappointment; Each moment offers life.

At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...

Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly.