you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.

No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.

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."

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.