If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.

The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.