We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.
Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.
A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.
I not only think that we will tamper with Mother Nature, I think Mother wants us to.
Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which, by exposing the goodness inside the bad man, and the evil in the good-invariably establish a vulgar and perverse egalitarianism, as if the arrangement of what is outside and what inside makes no moral difference.
In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into question our confidence in our own coping ability, it will threaten our safety.
The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life
Time is a perishable commodity.
Be just to everyone and don't look for an honour greater than this!
I still find to give an interview to be difficult, as any person who deals with the press will tell you. That's why it's nice, with this one, to talk to a friend. But sometimes with a coffee and a friendly smile, I suddenly start talking without thinking about how it's going to be read.
. . . well this US eight, with all its material occupying every seat just would not go fast. They rowed their hearts out but it never started to sing through the water. And no one ever found out why. The answer to this is slightly mystical because the sum of a crew is greater than its parts. Those eight heavyweights had not time to develop the bond, the sacred trust, that can make a racing eight fly.