War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization

Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by democratic governments in modern times.

In the age when the atom has been split, the moon encircled, diseases conquered, is disarmament so difficult a matter that it must remain a distant dream?

Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime!

There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.

My prayer is that God would continue to love me enough to refuse to answer the prayers I'm praying that I shouldn't be praying.

I met a few chimpanzees on my pilgrimages and I wasn't sure if they were just shrivelled-up villagers or chimps...

We are creatures of habit more than we are creatures of change.

I couldn't bear the thought of Alex looking at me like I was a freak. It was bad enough that the looked at me as Jack's sister.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

He who begins many things finishes but few.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.