Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.

A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.

scales are the grammar of music.

I have always been allergic to telephones. As far as I am concerned, they are very seldom time-savers and very often the destroyers of schedules.

You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to the other people in the process!

The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.