Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!

I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.