We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.