"Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport."

“The sun also shines on the wicked.”

“His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.”

“And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. For now, do not worry about "proper" praying, just talk to God.”

“The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody.”

Source : James Joll (1960). “Intellectuals in politics: three biographical essays”

“We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.”

“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.”

“I recommend the art of slow reading.”

“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.”