Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.

There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.