To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.

The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.