I'm bored. I'm not unprofessional. I'm just bored.
If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay. . . The nations backed their machines over the precipice not one of them wanted war, certainly not on this scale
He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.
It is always too late, or too little, or both. And that is the road to disaster.
Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.
Certain peace is better and safer than anticipated victory.
Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.
Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table and pass the peas to the person next to us we see that person in a whole new way.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.