It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

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.

It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.

Find gratitude in the little things and your well of gratitude will never run dry.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Greatness and madness are next door neighbours; and they borrow each other's sugar. You don't get there without the other.

If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.

All of you desire to belong entirely to God, and God also wants all of you to belong to Him