In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been a useful member of society, and instead of myself a…

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.