The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.

The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely as if it had been wiped out by a gigantic flood, by a great tempest, or by a volcanic eruption. The old world order died with the setting of that day's sun and a new world order is being born while I speak, with birth-pangs so terrible that it seems almost incredible that life could come out of such fearful suffering and such overwhelming sorrow.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Cherish yesterday. dream tomorrow, live like crazy today!!