Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.

No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.

War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.