If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason?

Only very coarse persons wanted wars.

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.