Quotes by JR

“We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.”

“Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.”

“The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal...”

“War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in...”

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”

“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”

“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

“Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.”

“Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge of Courage," "The Iliad and The Odyssey," "Crime and Punishmen...”

“He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.''All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child to see a message that negative every time she comes i...”

“All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.”

“Anyway—because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next—and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anythin...”

“There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.”

“Usually when people talk about the trickle-down theory, it has to do with economics. The richer people at the top of a society become, supposedly, the more wealth there is to trickle down to the pe...”

“It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To make sure of this, they performed an experiment....”

“Never compare your love story to those you watch in movies. They're written by scriptwriters, yours is written by God.”

“I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.”

“Always focus on the power of love than the love of power”