One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

[Nuclear weapons] now I think I mentioned around 27,000 and during the Cold War the total global arsenal was on the order of 70,000.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.