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.

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.

I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything else and I am part of it. I didn't ask to be put here. I've been lucky finding myself here.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

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.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.