You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.

If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.

The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think as they do. Nor have they ever thought of what they might have been if they had grown up in an entirely different culture. They have the disposition of all politicians world over to deal only with made opinion. They have never inquired how it is that opinion is made.

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.