I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.

No sky is heavy if the heart be light

Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.