Daniel J. Boorstin

Sometimes you’ve just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words… the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

I am not prejudiced in any way.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

As parents we’re not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

It isn’t true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

I never wanted this kind of life that I’m still living.

If you harbor hatred, anger, and bitterness (towards her), then you are absolutely locked into a bond through those negative emotions.