“If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.”

“Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.”

“Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.”

“Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.”

“The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.”

“We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma ...”

“If only it were possible to love without injury fidelity isnt enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body...”

“She looks at the swings, and I can see shes imagining what theyd look like if the kids werent there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away,...”

“But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem:they might point to the catkins hangingfrom the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the raindescending on black earth in early spring. ...”

“Life is but a dream for the dead.”

“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”

“There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure ad moving on. Yet most people are stricken wth fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.”

“Failure is when you stop trying to do something.So, if you want to succeed.Don't stop trying.”

“Society has failed its inhabitants, just as its inhabitants have failed society.”