Being Irish he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

The more I work with the body keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

So long as war is the main business of nations temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family which is a household name in India which stands for tradition is yet contemporary stands for trust.

Time is not a thing thus nothing which is and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher ' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.