My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.

The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.

English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.

I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.

I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.