All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.

This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.

Life was meant to be lived.

I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.

When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.