Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

A desert is a place without expectation.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

Writing is making sense of life.

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.

Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

I'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.

Can't sleep unless the TV is on.

Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.

Blinded following the Blindfolded

I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.

So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk.

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.

The worst of all States is the democratic State.