Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income?

Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.

The longings of the human heart are changeable and elusive. The good fortune we enjoy today may not be appreciated until it has been taken away and we have to fight and try to get it back (p.132)

But I, when I undress meEach night, upon my kneesWill ask the Lord to bless meWith apple-pie and cheese.

Making something is HardMaking something you don't even CARE ABOUT isEVEN HARDER .

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.

How much did you get for your soul?

Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.

God is good whether or not His choices seem right to us, whether or not we feel it, whether or not it seems true, and whether or not He gives us everything that we want.

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes.

Nothing in this world is so marvelous as the transformation that a soul undergoes when the light of faith descends upon the light of reason.