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.

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

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.

Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war.""The plant war, " Percy said. "You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles?

If you can't handle me with a messy bun, then you don't deserve me with a fabulous blowout.

Valuing a writer only for their diversity, but not their humanity or talent – that’s tokenism.

Life is nothing but a dance of hope, desires, and love.

Love is finding someone better than you are, and holding on for dear life

Yes, I have made a woman cry.

Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.

You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

When I release, you loose teeth.