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.

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations all start with a dream. Reading is where those dreams really can come true over and over again.

There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.