War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

The Israelis and the Palestinians don't know each other. They live right there, but they've become strangers. And it makes it much more difficult to make peace with a person you really don't know, and that's an obstacle in itself.

Peace is what enables development and is critical in providing opportunities to young people. Efforts to preserve peace are absolutely vital in bringing prosperity and hope for the future.