"The first step, my son, which one..." - Quote by Voltaire

“All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.”

“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”

“What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.”

“The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.”

“There is no beginning too small.”

“I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.”

“My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.”

“Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house.”

“I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life.”