... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?

Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.

You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.