John Dewey

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.

Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.