Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.

We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that, a Jew behaves in such a way, a Negro thinks in a different way. The lazy generalities - 'You know how women are ... Isn't that just like a man?' The world cannot be understood from a single point of view.

Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire

I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep the promise I made to myself, but the progress that the world is making toward peace seems like the crawling of a little child, very halting and slow.

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

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.