We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative.

I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.

Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.