For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.

Life is serious, motherhood should be fun.

I've got to be a little more careful. A little more careful about what I say. Don't have too many drinks.

The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.

Avoid giving invitations to bores - they will come without.

Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.

An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call That bides the spheres become articulate.

All education is self-discovery.

All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.

Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.