It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.

The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.

What power has love but forgiveness?

The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.