I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands.

Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?

In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and reverence, but there is no question of my pleasure and pride in having it for myself.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.