I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I would, as a kid, just sing little ideas or be making something.
How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her.
No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.
All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.
Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists. . . but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.
In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.
Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.
Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what we leave behind that is important. I think the matter of simplicity goes further than just food, equipment, and unnecessary gadgets; it goes into the matter of thoughts and objectives as well. When in the wilds, we must not carry our problems with us or the joy is lost.
Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.
I feel now, in my impending old age, very lucky. I just can't tell you how lucky I feel, that I've managed to first of all, stay alive this long, in reasonably good health, and that I've been able to do what I want to do.