Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.

Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.

We are all creatures of the stars.

I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.

We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.