Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

What a testing of character adversity is.

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

It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations!

One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.