Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.

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.

Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.

Karma's not like a bank . Make a deposit, take a withdrawal.

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

I have my own identity as a player.

If we want to be better than normal we must move from good intentions to what I call God intentions.

You'll find people less threatening if you hear what they're needing rather than what they're thinking about you.

A street that you have never visited is a book that you have never read! You never know what you are missing!

My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.