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

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share in the guilt for the dead.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him.

We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.