You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop."

[New Statesman interview, 7 January 1939]

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it