He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life
War is only glorious when you buy it in the Daily Mail and enjoy it at the breakfast table. It goes splendidly with bacon and eggs. Real war is the final limit of damnable brutality, and that’s all there is in it.
The choice--the dedication to one's highest potential--is made by accepting the fact that the noblest act you have ever performed is the act of your mind in the process of grasping that two and two make four.
Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.
...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good
There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.
or simply:
