We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.