There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.

Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history - its mass appeal.

Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'

The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world