Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth.

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.