In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

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 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.

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

They travel long distances to stroll along the seashore, for reasons they can't put into words.

There are people that have had worse happen to them. All those people that died in the hotel bombing? All those that were maimed and left orphaned?

You don't believe He knows what's best for you: that rest will make you more productive and more spiritually healthy.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.

The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.

How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.

I open my arms wide and declare with love that I deserve and accept all good!