Desire is the starting point of all achievement not a hope not a wish but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

I'm a married man. If I want sex at this particular point in my life I go home for it.

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness the volatility the wholesale lack of impulse control all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.

Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.

Although I have lived in London I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me and it has been too.

All things on earth point home in old October sailors to sea travellers to walls and fences hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds the lover to the love he has forsaken.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history especially for the Palestinians.

If America wants to retain its position as a global power its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families innocents going about their lives suddenly and brutally murdered no other day can ever matter as much.

Since the dawn of time traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

Yes they broke the law but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that whether it - they have to pay a fine learn to speak English the history you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.

At times we were forced to go through a history of dependence unable to determine our own destiny. But today we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history you have to be very careful about that how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

All in all for someone who was immersed in fascinated by and dedicated to flight I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

Music can be healing and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.