"In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged."

"Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage."

"The people of this world must unite or they will perish."

"We have to live with the fact that we have unleashed a terrible force."

"We may be living in a world where the future is already written, but we still have the power to change it."