"What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns."

"If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught."

"The dearest things I know are what you are."

"Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions."

"But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before."

"His ignorance is encyclopedic."

"Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England."

"It is a humble truth that serenity begins the moment you cease demanding that the external world conform — an essential principle for the reflective life."