None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.