George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf"--Opening to "My Father's Son, " attributed to George Orwell

O summer and soft wind. Relieves the heart and makes living cheaper.

I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.

Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality.

Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.

The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.