The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.

For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.

Books are humanity in print.

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.