The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.

This is our world, and we must make the best of it.

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.

The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

I write--because I must write.

How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.

The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.

What 'Twilight' gave me was years to consider how I wanted to work otherwise.

I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.

I would love to do a musical!

For goodness sake, look at those cakes.

I want all of my songs to do well whether I've written them or not.

Just believe in yourself and to find spirituality that’s going to carry you. Because all the rest is just fluff.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.