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.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

The essence of man is imperfection.

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 old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.

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