The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.

Deliberately, on every historic occasion, we piously fake events for the benefit of photographers, while the actual event often occurs in a different fashion; and we have the effrontery to call these artful dress rehearsals authentic historic documents.

Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas.

Order and creativity are complementary.

This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid.

War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.

Man's Chief purpose is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life.