At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender in its place was as honorable as resistance especially if one had no choice.

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are we know negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

We live less and less and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

I surrendered to a world of my imagination reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader especially history and Shakespeare.

But if there's an erosion at home you know Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy we've made a terrible mistake.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

We are losing our living systems social systems cultural systems governing systems stability and our constitutional health and we're surrendering it all at the same time.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature and it remains premature today.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.