The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.

Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine.

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.

Love dies only when growth stops.

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

Being intercontinental champion doesn't mean you're a champ. It means you're the future.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.

Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

If you stick with running, the day will come when you'll want to live forever.

You need to know everything. You both need to be comfortable with sharing everything. If you can't you are NOT ready to get married.

My personal style has developed from growing up in Oklahoma, middle America, where I was wearing jeans and cowboy boots and where people were not running around in miniskirts.

It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don't make sense.