This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

It would have been very much better for the world if Britain had remained neutral and the Germans had won a quick victory. We should not have had either the Nazis or the Communists if that had happened.

Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.