The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'

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."