“A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.”

“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.”

“We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.”

“What is a friend? I will tell you...it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. Frank Crane”

“Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.”

“A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.”

“We prefer to imagine brutal wars and atrocities as events that "just happen" every now and then, much like tornadoes or lightning strikes; this metaphor suggests that we can't generalize from them,...”

“The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to salvage their own lives, but in the process they also salvag...”

“Along with individual responsibility goes some societal responsibility to enable young people and their parents to do what they need to do. Otherwise, what is a society?”