The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

The only failures are those who fail to try.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.

When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.