Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realize how widespread envy was.

Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.

Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.

When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.

We need to believe I think in justice. We need to run our lives as if justice existed... If we abandon a belief that justice will eventually be done, we make this world much more difficult for ourselves.

The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.