The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68

Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.

Don't you complicate your mind Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy.

Technology has such an impact on libraries in the last 20 years, and the last 10 years in particular.

I actually do like playing off-beat people. I think it's more fun.

Maybe I was a bit harsh on some people. But I was harshest on myself, really.

It's kind of boring to me if teams never throw the ball.

When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.

You can never stop discovering music.

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.