I know that the only completely happy life for man and for woman is their life, first together, and then with their children. I am a firm believer that no marriage can be really happy, and no home a happy one for the children as well, unless man puts woman first and woman puts man first, each for the other the giver of every good gift. Children are the fruit of this total love.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

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."

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.