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

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 ordinar…

- Joseph Lelyveld

His laughter... sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight.

- Joseph Lelyveld