Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.

When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.

Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us.

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.