I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.