The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.

it's easy to be forgetful when you're grieving, even forget those things that you believe most people wouldn't.

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

Servants must be big people. Big enough to go on, remembering the right and forgetting the wrong.

So why would you care To get out of this place? You and me and all our friends, Such a happy human race. Eat, drink and be merry, For tomorrow we die.

The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.

Point out the problems, as long as you have a solution. I don't like critics who aren't doers themselves.

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.