We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It could end by stupefying us.

There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed.

If we are to survive on this planet there must be compromises.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed.

I believe that only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.