“The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.”

“If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.”

“If you are afraid to fail, then you are afraid to succeed. You can never succeed of you have not failed.”

“Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity.”

“Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.”

“Competition has been shown to be usefulup to a certain point and no further,but cooperation, which is the thingwe must strive for today,begins where competition leaves off.”

“Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.”