The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation.

in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.

It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.

It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.

Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.

I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.

There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.

If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.

Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

He said, I've been coming for you on a hard road. I'm never letting you go. Never.

Where I am ignorant, Lord, teach me. Where I am wrong, Lord, correct me. Where I am right, Lord, confirm me.

So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!

No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.

The worshiper is the father of the gods.

The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

Laboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience.