If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.

What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!

It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.