A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go.

Peace is possible for dead bodies, living bodies can not expect peace on the way to the victory.

Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.

To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.

That's the easy thing about falling: there is only one choice after that.

Mathematics is the science of patterns.

The more people challenge us, the more power we gain. We become stronger not under the tiny raindrops but under the huge hailstone!

I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you.