The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.

I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues.

I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.

Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.

Born in England during the First World War, of Belgian parents with partly German roots, I grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp, where I had the benefit of a classical education taught in the two national languages of Belgium: French and Dutch.