"The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace."

"Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag."

"It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise."

"History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions."

"The map is not the territory."

"It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws."

"They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear."

"We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read."

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

"For it is a land of illusion, a place in the mind, a shimmering mirage of riches and mystery and death. These illusions have distorted its landscape and contorted its history."