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

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 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.

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.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us and I for one must be content to remain agnostic.

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

Shoot eagles on the Jack Nicklaus course, Porsche with the triple exhaust, Seats soft like a midget's cough.

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

When being interviewed by a woman for a job, never begin with listen up doll face.

Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.

Doing theater is like walking a tightrope without a net.

war often breaks out when there is the most talk of peace.

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York

Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.