Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.

Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties.

It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.

Statesmen should remember that they have been elected to persuade and to lead, and not just to accept as fixed the momentary moods and pernicious prejudices of the public.

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.

Adversity refined a man like gold.

Meeting him was fate, loving him was a choice, and spending the rest of my life with him… well that was destiny.

I think great teachers, which coaches are, are the ones that you hear.

To keep is more important than to make friends.

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing.

If there's a man on second, I'm trying to get him in with a base hit. The doubles and homers will come. Sooner or later they'll go out naturally. I'm just trying not to do too much.

Some people say that in stressful situations I can seem unflappable, and I think that's partly because I'm always kind of internally flapped.