"One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions."

“The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can`t bring down God`s house.”

“The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.”

Source : Speech at Strasbourg, 11 May 1979, in P. Ziegler 'Mountbatten' (1985) ch. 52

“Your dragons are the frightened parts of your personality, and you alone can experience and heal them.”

“what a rope of sand we are without a leader ...”

Source : Marjorie Bowen (1907). “The Master of Stair”

“Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.”

“I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.”

Source : "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

“A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.”

Source : Reggie Jackson, Mike Lupica (1985). “Reggie”, Ballantine Books

“I'm tired, but proud.”

Source : Norman Rockwell (1988). “Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening Post”, Bookthrift