Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration. Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.

Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.

It is far more difficult... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.