Only dead mathematics can be taught where competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

Only dead mathematics can be taught where the attitude of competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight.

I decide to release myself the only way I can imagine: I pee my pants.

As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!

There wasn't enough chocolate in the world to make this better.

[Songs] have to be a part of you. They have to be in your DNA. That's how I approached it.

Watch out for people who think it's embarrassing not to know.

You kind of never leave Arsenal. How many comebacks do you make? At one point it will turn out to be a bad move. We all love the first Rocky but I'm not too sure about the last one.

People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.