The Real Sadness Of Fifty Is Not

We All Run On Two Clocks. One Is The Outside Clock, Which Ticks Away Our Decades And Brings Us Ceaselessly To The Dry Season. The Other Is The Inside Clock, Where You Are Your Own Timekeeper And Determine Your Own Chronology, Your Own Internal Weather And Your Own Rate Of Living. Sometimes The Inner Clock Runs Itself Out Long Before The Outer One, And You See A Dead Man Going Through The Motions Of Living.

The Way To Prevent War Is To Bend Every Energy Toward Preventing It, Not To Proceed By The Dubious Indirection Of Preparing For It.

The Russians Train; They Do Not Dare Educate.

We Cannot Live By Power, And A Culture That Seeks To Live By It Becomes Brutal And Sterile. But We Can Die Without It.

The So-called Lessons Of History Are For The Most Part The Rationalizations Of The Victors. History Is Written By The Survivors.