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.

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

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.

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

If I had a child who wanted to be a teacher, I would bid him Godspeed as if he were going to war. For indeed the war against prejudice, greed, and ignorance is eternal, and those who dedicate themselves to it give their lives no less because they may live to see some fraction of the battle won.

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

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