"I refuse to believe that the world is so divided that we cannot find common ground."

"I can think of nothing more important than to try to make the world a better place."

"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."

"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."