“there’s too much tension in the world… what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can’t make peace.”

“Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?”

“If you're still, and if you don't hope too much, peace will come to you. It's a grace. But you have to choose happiness.”

“Once you make up your mind to get rid of something, there’s very little you can’t discard. No – not very little. Once you put your mind to it, there’s nothing you can’t get rid of. And once you start tossing things out, you find yourself wanting to get rid of everything. It’s as if you’d gambled away almost all your money and decided, What the hell, I’ll bet what’s left. Too much trouble to cling to the rest”

“The Middle East was not a wilderness, and the people there were not savages: if anything they were over civilized. Too many American newcomers to the East saw it in frontier terms.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world”