Check out not to become a man or woman of achievement, but instead seek to become a particular person of price.

There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.

It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.

One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.

If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.