I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.

The problems are here to stay. We need to find a way to deal with them.

No party has renounced the right to armed resistance, in certain circumstances without lying

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.

Christian witness is concrete: words without actions are empty.