Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

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.

Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insa

I may like easy choices, but I appreciate the difficult ones more.

I wonder how much of the rest of his clothes I could convince him to take off, then wonder where that thought came from. Well I guess I know.

Where your attention goes, you go.

I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.

He is not injured. He's not fit. He's not fit to play football, unfortunately. He played in a reserve game the other day and I could have run about more than he did. I can't pick him.

I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'.

Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process.

I'm a lucky guy. No question.