There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

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.

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

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.