Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

Everybody wants something.

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.