"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning."

"Religion is pickled God."

"Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom"

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

"Strength is the outcome of need."

"Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together."

"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."

"In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest."

"I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of people waiting to abuse me."

"Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction."

"I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am."