In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.

I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.

If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey.

There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself.

Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

There is a knowledge that is beyond the mind and the intellect, it is the wisdom of consciousness.

The Christmas spirit is simply an honest spirit of love for all humanity. It is the force that moves us to give what we can, to help as we are able, and to always be of kind comfort.

The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.

I am entirely capable." "Of what, waddling up to someone and ruthlessly bumping into them?

Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch.

How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.

A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and in the world at large, in a manner at present denied us

I would love to hang out with Elvis Costello, to see what he's up to because he seems so fascinating to me.

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.

Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes, and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.