Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys.

We are a resilient country. We've been through a Civil War; we've been through two World Wars. We've been through a Great Depression; we even made it through Jimmy Carter! We will make it through the Obama years!