Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.