“I cannot condone the systematic destruction of the hope and spirit of people who have suffered hardship and pain to reach our shores. They are people who believe that they have been or are at risk of being persecuted in their own country.”
“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.”
“We must never cease our exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to return to the place where we first began and to truly know that place for the first time.”
“Character is doing the right thing when no-one is watching.”
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul, then the way it treats its children.”
“But the artist persists because they have the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.”
“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our young people – one of these is roots, the other is wings.”
“All people should strive to learn before they die: what they are running from, and to, and why.”
“There is no such thing as being non-political. Just by making a decision to stay out of politics you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.”
“Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.”
