The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.

He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his.

I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.