The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with a totalitarian enemy was to intimidate him. The trouble with this theory was that while we live in a world of plot and counterplot, we also live in a world of cause and effect. Whatever the cause for the decision to legitimize and regularize deceit abroad, the inevitable effect was the practice of deceit at home.

The life-force may be the least understood force on earth.

Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.

History is an accumulation of error.

Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.