It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.

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.

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.

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.

He was the kind of teacher every child hated, and they suspected most of the staff did not like him too.

Relax and Recreate yourself!

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.

Donald Trump has got a big heart. He loves his family, he loves America.

I don't watch any films. Billy Elliot is the only film I've seen in the last 25 years. Oh, and ET. Both of which I loved!

I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.