I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths.

The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'

Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

A modest little person, with much to be modest about.