Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around. Take money...and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a Big Brother or Sister...You want to do well, but if you do not do good too, then doing well will never be enough.

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation.

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.