Lester B. Pearson

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.

There are certainly contemporaries that I admire, like Emily Blunt. I think she is amazing.

A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.