An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky.

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.

To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.