Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause.

Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.

Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.