When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.

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.

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

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

What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen, anecdotes that were funny only because one remembered the fun. Did any emotion really matter when the last trace of it had vanished from human memory; and if that were so, what a crowd of emotions clung to him as to their last home before annihilation? He must be kind to them, must treasure them in his mind before their long sleep.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.