Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

I never wish to be easily defined.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.