A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.

Risk-taking is the essence of innovation.

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained.

I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.

A man who does not honor the company of his true friends will never see the light of true love.

I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you. And I did. But that right there was why it was doomed.

We're all alive. We're all health. These are the good times.

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what's good or bad for you.

I don't want to be that guy on some set he doesn't want to be on. It just bums everybody out.

People have no confidence that Washington, both sides of aisle, are coming together to try and do what's right for the economy.

Nothing succeeds like persistence. The common denominator of all successful people is their persistence.

The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees.

Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.