Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this.

I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?

Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.

Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.

My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.