“By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.”

“Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.”

“All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.”

“Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.”

“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”

“It is pleasant to observe by what regular gradation we surmount the force of local prejudice as we enlarge our acquaintance with the world.”

“Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.”

“International specialization and division of labor requires institutions and organizations to safeguard property rights across international boundaries so that capital markets as well as other kinds of exchange can take place with credible commitment on the part of the players.”

“Identity is much less a thing people "inherit" than it used to be.”

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”