The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered.

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

It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

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.

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

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