Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.

Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.

A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time. Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.

Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

We often do not see what we do not expect to see.