Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.