I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that close to nuclear war at the end. Rational individuals: Kennedy was rational; Khrushchev was rational; Castro was rational. Rational individuals came that close to total destruction of their societies. And that danger exists today.

I like to run down to the beach and have a little swim in the nude in the morning.

General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!

I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous

Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.

Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.

The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.