This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.

There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.

We worship money instead of honour.

I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.

An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.

Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.

I'm the ultimately responsible person in this organization. Other people can pass the buck to me, but I can't pass the buck to anyone else.