Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.

We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.

Perfect love may cast our fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love.

A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.

The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.