It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.

The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.

And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.

This storm you talk of . . .t will be such a one, my son, as the world has not seen before. There will be no safety by arms, no help from authority, no answer in science. It will rage till every flower of culture is trampled, and all human things are leveled in a vast chaos.