If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.
If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations.
But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can remember in the past.
Until the wolf shall lay with lamb, we'd better be the wolves.
Geopolitics needs not just rhetoric, not just certain instincts, not just political skillful manipulation; it needs vision and what the Germans call erdung - you have to be connected to the ground always. You cannot float on your wishful thinking and hope that some miracles will become reality.
There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage. . . between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.
We are talking about a major change in reality that has to come about,. . . We are not idiots. If it turns out that this situation where there is no partner (in peace) remains the same, then we will know what to do.
I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.
The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.
As for the healing, that comes from the writing, from living and writing. That's my catharsis. That's why I never regret sharing because it's part of my healing!
I have a kind of psychic invisibility. As long as I can stay scared, I can keep people from seeing me. That's what we have to count on.