The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!

What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.

Basically [United States and France] said "We will use nuclear weapons whenever it suits our purposes to do so." So this expansion of doctrines regarding possible use of nuclear weapons makes them more, you know, sort of, salient and important and so it's increasing the perceived political value of nuclear weapons and therefore causing or contributing to possible proliferation.

If you think you can do it, you can.

I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture.

There tends to be this comfortable assumption that nuclear weapons won't be used, but I don't think that's warranted, and I think we should seize the opportunity of this time of stability and cooperation and move towards global elimination of nuclear weapons as indeed people like Henry Kissinger, and William Perry, former Secretary of Defense under Clinton, and Sam Nunn, former Senator, and George Schultz, former Undersecretary of State for Ronald Reagan. All of them recently called for achievement of a nuclear weapon-free world.