It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice.
The foundations of the world will be shaky until the moral props are restored.
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.
[During a pre-war interview with Hitler when he screamed at her, 'The Jews! The Jews! What are you doing about the Jews in America?':] Why nothing. We think we're just as good as they are.
The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.
The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree. . . . in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.
Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you… You are made by the struggles you choose.
He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.
Because of old sports injuries, yoga has become a physical lifesaver.
It’s bad enough. . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.