The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes.

Justice is not cheap in this country, and people who insist on it are usually either desperate or possessed by some private determination bordering on monomania.

The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

Instead of bracing yourself for the perils of the unknown, embrace the joy that is here, in your present moment.

If you yearn to learn, you’ll learn to earn.

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

Sometimes the opposite of loss is loss.

If moral truths do not exist as a foundation for law, then law itself becomes merely a system of raw political power accountable to no one.

have no doubt, this technology will — someday, somewhere — be used to change the genome of our own species in ways that are heritable, forever altering the genetic composition of human kind.

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts Old age is slow in both.