Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.

My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma become educated about their condition and seek help.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions it is governed by our mental attitude.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

For art to exist for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger rage fear sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

Usually when people are sad they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry they bring about a change.

The unconditional love for you child it's truly amazing.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

No sex age or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.