If decisions were a choice between alternatives decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

Stories are equipment for living.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

If you think that there's anything that you need to do for salvation, then you've missed the point of the Gospel. Eternal life is a gift from God!

Laws are the spider's webs which if anything small falls into them they ensnare it but large things break through and escape.

The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

I've got a terrible person in me just as much as anybody else, and I think - I like to think I also have a really good person in me.

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

It really was a hell of a motorcycle, ..It was arguably the first American motorcycle company, beating Harley by a year or so. Indian was the standard by which everything was gauged.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.