The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

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.

You can read her mind only if she lets you. She will let you only if she loves you.

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.

If at the age of thirty you don't know what God has called you to do; you may never know.

Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.

I've always had a special place in my heart for old women digging through garbage bins. They saved my life so many times as a baby.

The country's top chefs, designers, media personalities and businesses are part of this dynamic city. We know that Chicagoans are used to the highest standards.

Go force your condescending man-logic on the next house. You can go now.

I don't like the intellectual label.

There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind