Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?

The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.

The only failures are those who fail to try.

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

He had waited until I had my door open, then driven away. The perfect gentleman. Sort of like Dracula just before he drank your blood.

Rugged indiividualism and Rugged groupism. Together they make America strong.

This moment is all there is and LOVE is like the glue that keeps you in it.

Why is patience so important?""Because it makes us pay attention.

A true visionary has a purpose for those without vision!

A sitcom. I hate that word.

Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?

In school, I was an underachiever.

Controversy chases the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin the way a dog chases a stick.

"Alexander, were you looking for me?" "All my life."