Because faithfulness is not a human question, but a divine one.

There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items that medicate the poor soul

Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.

That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.

After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.

The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us so full of longing to the sea.

I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.

It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.

A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage.

And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth.

What's the use of the wind if it won't take you away on it?

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything.

I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go... anywhere.

Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.

An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence.

Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and work.

Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.