Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

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.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

The full he empties, and the empty he fills.

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

I called Donald Trump a racist. Nobody that makes that charge is being intellectually honest, or else they're being intellectually lazy.

The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.

The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.

Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.

This above all; to thine own self be true.