The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception and except under very special circumstances it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.

If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests.

The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics.

The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression

A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.

I would never see him again. But as I watched the tunnel race before my eyes, I was certain of one thing: I did trust him. Now I had only to trust in myself.

Those who are called by God are predestined for victory

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.

Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.

A man's perfection is his work.

My manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them.

The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine.

Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.

About fifty million years ago...geological evidence indicates CO2 levels were several thousand ppm, much higher than now. And life flourished abundantly.