The best of healers is good cheer.

Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.