“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.”

“He was a windbag. He made a great many orations, and I imagine he did a very good job, but he was still a windbag”

“The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.”

“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”

“If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don't want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances.”

“I hope for some sort of peace—but I fear that machines are ahead of morals by some centuries and when morals catch up there'll be no reason for any of it.”

“Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.”