And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the Love and the courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out to the risks of living with both arms. One has to embrace life.

Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.