It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be

But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression

All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature

At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration

As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself.

The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.

Men and women...sill live together for centuries without agreeing on anything.

Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.

Those who wish well towards their friends disdain to please them with words which are not true.

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?

We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough.