One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.

One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.

We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.

Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state

One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.

If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks

When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.

Splendor was the decree of the day.

What is the point of "labor saving" if by making work effortless we make it poor, and if by doing poor work we weaken our bodies and lose conviviality and health? (Health is Membership, pg. 93)

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

When people have children, they have to grow up!

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.

True love is not selfish. In time it accustoms itself to anything which secures happiness for its object.

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.