When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.

What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that many people think so is continually a source of surprise to me. Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.