It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

I'm sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it's your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.