There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I used to follow a practice - somewhat contrived, I admit - to write the man's name on a piece of scrap paper, drop it into the lowest drawer of my desk, and say to myself: "That finishes the incident, and so far as I'm concerned, that fellow." The drawer became over the years a sort of private wastebasket for crumbled-up spite and discarded personalities.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.