If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by their people in great truths.

All men - whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans - have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies.

Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to keep informed as he did only thirty or forty years ago. Being "educated" today requires not only more than a superficial knowledge of the arts and sciences, but a sense of inter-relationship such as is taught in few schools. Finally, being "educated" today, in terms of the larger needs, means preparation for world citizenship; in short, education for survival.

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.