When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.