I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.

It is today that we create the world of the future.

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.