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

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.

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.

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.

I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting.

Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

God was showing off when he made you.

As we free our breath through diaphragmatic breathing, we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions.

The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

It was really a focus on how to in some ways keep moving in this direction towards something that allowed me to express myself in a way that sports didn't.

Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo