Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.

I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

Great self-respect is as often manifested in forbearance as in resentment.

People ask me about my interests outside football, but I haven't really got any.

I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.

The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better.

For me, 40 feels like a beginning. I'm in the middle of so much new - with this career, the kids, and I'm still sort of a newlywed. I'm excited to be at this stage in life.

Most people have thought of ... climate change as a problem about the environment that is separate and distinct from problems of human wellbeing.

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.