I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But of course in this case we will certainly fight with all our strength.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed steady gains in strength At first it may be but as a spider's web easily broken through but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

If we resist our passions it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength the latter becomes irresistible.

Modern science then so far from being an enemy of romance is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology and we should resist the temptation which sometimes scientists give in to to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

I respect only those who resist me but I cannot tolerate them.