Author refers to, "short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.

Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.

A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered

The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them,

A student was given a mentoring opportunity, "in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.

The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.

One reason we're not winning the fight against depression is that our available treatments leave so many in partial recovery limbo.

We are home to each other now.

Think of someone you care about and send loving thoughts in the present moment.

Tomorrow composts today.

How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for clues.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and money.

Musical integrity means a lot to me, personally for myself, I don't really care if other people can't even sing or whatever. For myself I have high standards.