"The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war."

"It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world."

"Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality."

"As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not."

"While conscience is our friend, all is at peace however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind."

"He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure."

"The universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws."

"Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved."