I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation.

There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.

if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.

If I had a child who wanted to be a teacher, I would bid him Godspeed as if he were going to war. For indeed the war against prejudice, greed, and ignorance is eternal, and those who dedicate themselves to it give their lives no less because they may live to see some fraction of the battle won.

There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.