"The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do."

"The assurance that we have no means of answering questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them.…"

"With Diophantus the history of Greek arithmetic comes to an end. No original work, that we know of, was don…"

"At one end of the intellectual spectrum are the wise, those who know they don't know much; and on the other…"

"Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil th…"

"President with a mind of his own, was a politician of high values, a distinguished parliamentarian, and a g…"

"I don't speechify. I know the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. And that's what I as…"