He was a gallant man, the man who never quit. He was not a man who easy to beat or defeat. To do like this, you must have great talent and also great effort.

I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material …

I have no doubt that the Romans planned the time-table of their days far better than we do. They rose before the sun at all seasons. Except in wartime we never…

'In retrospect these years form not only the least agreeable, but the only barren and unhappy period of my life. I was happy as a child with my toys in my nurs…

Talent is only the starting point.

I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches - not anything. So I've worked r…

'Genius' (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).