Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

A successful father is not more successful than his children.

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.

I couldn't sleep knowing I was going to leave my Miami. It's always going to be my home, but it's not the same.

The booing and the drama help make the Olympics interesting, but at what cost? When will people finally get tired of it and start watching the X-Games or competitive tire rolling instead?

We had Jesse Ventura in Minnesota win the governorship, nobody thought he was going to win. I'm telling you, stranger things have happened.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship.

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.