Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

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.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You're trying so hard to be successful that true success is eluding you.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

I think you're defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do.

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgment, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

Well, what I want them to know is, just like John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa, that's the kind of spirit that I have, too.

There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.