Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.

Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

I did no know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.