The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.