The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.

This is our world, and we must make the best of it.

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.

The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Make mistakes often without remorse or fear. You will gain experience and will be a winner.

...it is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together...

The author describes the adoption process in which he and his wife participated as "a paperwork pregnancy".

Tourism is the march of stupidity.

I will not harbor unhealthy thoughts anymore.

We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.

Let us start a new religion with one commandment, "Enjoy thyself.

Faithful found among the faithless.

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.