Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Risk-taking is the essence of innovation.

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained.

I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.

Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.

No, ” Shane said. “I’m not leaving you two here alone. We stick together.”“I’m still not kissing you, ” Michael said.“Tease.

Racism is a virus which can only be spread by us!

There's not protocol for falling in love with someone. There's no game plan to tell you when it's appropriate to do certain things, say other things.

Everybody needs to laugh and have fun and feel good.

The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.

You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System is United.

People do pretty ugly things to make themselves feel better, this I do know.

Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people, he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?"

For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.