To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.