"In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us."

"God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason."

"Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict."

"Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life."

"Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world."

"We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs."

"Every summit scaled was once thought insurmountable from the valley below. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"The only peace is being out of earshot."