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.

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.

Our lives aren't just measured in years. They're measured in the lives of people we touch around us

Any talent that we are born with eventually surfaces as a need.

My dad made a film called 'Willow' when he was a young filmmaker, which screened at the Cannes film festival, and people were booing afterwards.

It's hard to explain. It probably sounds super silly, but I do have a lot of really weird dreams.

Easier, sometimes, to gulp down giant spoonfuls of uncertainty than it is to swallow throat-clogging capsules of what really is.

I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.

Heaven is for those who think of it.

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

Friends share secrets. That's what keeps us close.

Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.