What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be

The instruments of war can be manufactured ... human blood cannot be; and the lack of just one pint could mean the life of an American serviceman.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not seem as remarkable to me as it quite evidently appears to others. I know a great deal of the horrors and tragedies of war. ... The cost of war in human lives is constantly spread before me, written neatly in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones. I am deeply moved to find some means or method of avoiding another calamity of war.

No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.