I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.

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.

The way children stretch time and the way adults forget that stretch could be one of the saddest differences in the world.

You can't move things by not moving.

... The use of your gift for good is your responsibility. You must decide for yourself.

You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.

Nearly all Bolshevist agitators in Germany and elsewhere were Jews.

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

I don't believe songs that try to say everything in a simple slogan.