To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.

For me the greatest joy is to be able to submerge myself for a few hours every day in a human time that otherwise would be alien to me. A lifetime is not enough.

Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.

The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.

One of the beauties of working in radio is the way a whole setting can be richly evoked simply by the addition to the track of a little birdsong and a church bell in the distance.

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

The world is full of incredible people who are embodiments of compassion. Some of them have a spiritual path; some of them don't.

We act in a pragmatic and careful manner. We reduce spending on budget items that do not constitute a priority.

I'm not in the habit of looking back - I leave that till I get old.