We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We understand almost nothing about the essential robustness of the human body or its ability to meet the challenge of illness.

Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself.

Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead.

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.