1. ”Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.”
2. ”Hunger makes a thief of any man.”
3. "I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us."
4. "Inside myself is a place where I live alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up."
5. ”It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.”
6. “Music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.”
7. “My whole life presents a unity. Everything I have done, even my writing, grows out of a fascinated interest in human beings, in the wonders of their minds and hearts, their sensitivities, their needs, and the essential loneliness of their position in the universe.”
8. ”None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.”
9. ”No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language mathematics. She had not understood mathematics until he had explained to her that it was the symbolic language of relationships. "And relationships," he had told her, "contained the essential meaning of life."”
10. “One faces the future with one's past.”
11. “Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.”
12. ”Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.”
13. ”Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.”
14. "There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be."
15. “The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”
