War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

War is a contagion.

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

People do not make wars; governments do.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

To make headway, improve your head.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn’t do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.

Change in all things is sweet.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.