If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.

It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table, is an inescapable, delightful and repelling, desired and abhorred part of each child's life.

To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.

All social change comes from the passion of individuals.