The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious

I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.

Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire for rest, for friendship, for the sound of human voices? Could I now reclaim a single hour spent talking to my brother, Philip, and give it to Ken Daggart? Who made it our duty to accept, as the only reward for our work, the gray torture of pretending love for those who roused nothing but contempt?

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .