Lelyveld Quotes & Sayings

By the time Gandhi met Muhammad Ali in Delhi in April 1915it was, Gandhi said, 'love at first sight.' — Joseph Lelyveld

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people. — Joseph Lelyveld

Joe Lelyveld told me just now that Gandhi and Mussolini
Actually met. What an extraordinary thought. — Frederick Seidel

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend. — Francine Du Plessix Gray

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. — Horace Mann

We think we control our environment, but in fact, it's our environment that controls us. We can't change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring. — Guy Spier

I should like to slip out of the public gaze...to bury myself in the farm and devote my attention to farming and educating." Mahatma Gandhi — Joseph Lelyveld

Jenny? Just as I was considering — S.C. Stephens

You create your own reality. — Seth

His laughter ... sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight. — Joseph Lelyveld

Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have everything you want exactly when you want it has somehow become un-American. — Bill Maher

If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life. — Joseph Lelyveld