All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason?

No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language was mathematics. She had not understood mathematics until he had explained to her that it was the symbolic language of relationships. "And relationships," he had told her, "contained the essential meaning of life."

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.