There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.