This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality.

Like Hitler, the President used the word lies to mean statements of fact not to his liking and presented journalism as a campaign against himself.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

Actually, New York is great for playing around. I made a lot of studies for New York-a big vacuum cleaner lying on the Battery in Manhattan.

I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

Fear is the single biggest blocker of creativity.

Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.

If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example, you will need no power at all.