Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

Stories are equipment for living.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable.

Ever since her trip with Alexia to Scotland, Mrs. Tunstell had rather a taste for foreign travel. Alexia blamed it on the kilts.

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers.

In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.