No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

The tough-minded ... respect difference. Their goal is a world made safe for differences, where the United States may be American to the hilt without threatening the peace of the world, and France may be France, and Japan may be Japan on the same conditions.

... with every Asiatic country where we operate in cooperation with the existing culture, the need for intelligent understanding of that country and its ways of life will be crucial. These nations will very likely not respond to appeals with which we are familiar, and not value rewards which seem to us irresistible. The danger--and it would be fatal to world peace--is that in our ignorance of their cultural values we shall meet in head-on collision and incontinently fall back on the old pattern of imposing our own values by force.

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.

In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.

It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.