My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.

You can't control a young horse unless you control yourself.

My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.

The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.

So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.