All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.

The best and noblest gifts of humanity cannot be the monopoly of a particular race or country; its scope may not be limited nor may it be regarded as the miser's hoard buried underground.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.

Time is not measured by the passing of yaers but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

What we need is a generation of peace.