Authority is powerful — You can't fight City Hall

Authority is everything — eloquence is not what the speaker says but who he is that gives weight to eloquence.

Authority is anathema to freedom — Where there is authority, there is no freedom.

Authority is everything — people accept an idea more readily if you say Benjamin Franklin said it first.

Commitment is requisite to real living — If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Commitment is at the heart of personhood. An uncommitted person is not person at all.

Commitment is the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

Decision is unavoidable. Even to hesitate, one has to decide.

Decision is the eternal protest against fictions.

A Decision is a decision because it can never be wholly justified.

The Decision is a moment equal to a moment of madness.