Retain a calm heart, sit like a turtle, walk swiftly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog

We can hold back neither the coming of the flowers nor the downward rush of the stream; sooner or later, everything comes to its fruition.

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

You have to, in some ways, trust in the human spirit and in human ingenuity.

We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.

I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world.

I wanted to tell stories about people who didn't have the chance to tell their own.

I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.

Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.