We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.
I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.
You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.
The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.
Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.
A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?
How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?. . . only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.
Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected.
Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
I still believe in the American Dream. I see it in terms of freedom, and a government that trusts its people to exercise freedom, that this is not a government that allows you to give, that allows you to explore, and doesn't dampen your own creativity - in the broadest sense - with a lot of dictums or dogmas or restraints. So, insofar as we can remain a free country that allows for the interplay of personal energies. I think this is still a country that is not only working towards a dream, but actually is the dream in action.