Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.