Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.

A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.

Pacifists should stress more and more that it is the rule of law for which they are fighting.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.

The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.

The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.

There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

Making money may give a sense of Achievement. But making a difference will give a sense of Fulfillment.-RVM

May you find courage in every circumstance.

She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.

Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.

A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.

Judging by the hard lines of his face and the flat look in his eyes, he'd left the Marines, but the Corps hadn't quite left him.

Praise is deeper than the lips