Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

One can repent even of having repented.

It was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with their fragrance. The temperature was like a caress. I remember - I need not recall - that I climbed up a tree stump and felt suddenly immersed in Itness. I did not call it by that name. I had no need for words. It and I were one.

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.