If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

We are used to dealing with problems that have a solution and that can be solved in a finite period. But we're at the beginning of a long period of adjustment that does not have a clear-cut terminal point, and in which our wisdom and sophistication and understanding has to be one of the key elements.

One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we have now would have been enough to deter Hitler. But we are talking in a different order of reality.

The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office.

Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states.