Sunday, July 22, 2007

Gradually, it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes, not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts.

A. Solzhenitsyn in REALITY AND THE VISION:18 CONTEMPORARY WRITERS TELL WHO THEY READ AND WHY.
How one does want to read everything.

C.S. Lewis. Letter to Arthur Greeves.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Conde Naste Traveler: How has travel affected your global vision?

Richard Branson: I think it's very difficult to understand the world's problems unless you travel. I've been to hospitals where rows and rows of people were dying from AIDS. Without having seen that, I doubt I would feel the same imperative.