Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.
If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.
Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.
I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.
There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.
At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them.
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle.
Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.