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.

The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.

What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen, anecdotes that were funny only because one remembered the fun. Did any emotion really matter when the last trace of it had vanished from human memory; and if that were so, what a crowd of emotions clung to him as to their last home before annihilation? He must be kind to them, must treasure them in his mind before their long sleep.

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.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

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

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.