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.

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

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.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

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

if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.