There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.

In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.

It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.

I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation.

There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.

Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?