I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.
The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be done so as to be sure Japan is put into the wrong and makes the first bad move. . . . The question was how we should maneuver them [the Japanese] into the position of firing the first shot.
Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.
Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.
But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.
Laughter lifts our spirits, surprises and sometime shocks our expectations, allows us to cross boundaries, reorders our priorities, and gives us access to ideas and associations we rarely ever thought to have.
The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery
Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.
The expiatory church of La Sagrada Família is made by the people and is mirrored in them. It is a work that is in the hands of God and the will of the people.