You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses.

You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of content.

With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief to my problems.

No one is going to fire me now. If and when I leave, I'll be the one to make the decision

They will set aside what they have believed about the world, divesting themselves of all preconceptions, all judgments.... They will do it, then they will send their minds out to seek the truth.

Logic may be conceived as ruling out what is absolutely impossible, and thus determining the field of what in the absence of empirical knowledge is abstractly possible.

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

I do remain confident in Linda. She'll make a fine labor secretary. From what I've read in the press accounts, she's perfectly qualified.

Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.

Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by democratic governments in modern times.

Donald Trump is great television, just has it. Trump looks good on TV.

I don't think any actor can be happy with their performance. There's always something you wish you would have done or said differently.