Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.

I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.

Do your little bit of good where you are.

There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.

We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.

We are interconnected.

We seek a restorative justice, not a retributive justice.