Part of the beauty of Judaism and surely this is so for other faiths also is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge I also see the beauty of human life.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth goodness and beauty are one. In the morning when they commit their discovery to paper when others read it written there it looks wholly ridiculous.

When I first left university I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office or doing HR. The attitude was 'My dear lady you cannot possibly think about going on the board.'

Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is gardening is just the opposite - it is or should be a central basic expression of human life.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.