Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of time any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off than the savage in this respect. He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should we not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time Dimension; or even to turn about and travel the other way?

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.

The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past.