Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.