MATHS - the subject

Today i recieved a newsletter containing an abstract on Mathematics - the Universal Language. Since my schooling years, i have dreaded Mathematics. The main reason was the importance laid on scoring 100% in that subject. Even at my senior and higher secondary exams, i was not able to manage a 100%.
With such a track record, no wonder i am always scared of that subject. The opening lines of the article that i was referring to at the start, spoke with such reverence for the subject that i plunged to read more. Here are some of the passages from the article which made me think - maybe Maths is not that bad :-)

""" .................. No matter how you figure, mathematics is included--even the quantity and density of the air you breathe, your degree of sight, and the amount of your appetite, or capacity for liquids, the extent of or degree of your smell and taste.

Try to separate anything from mathematics and there will not be anything left, not even a degree of your intelligence or sense of humour. No wonder it is a divine law of being, not merely a man-made principle of measurement. It is truly the universal language; even the state or balance or discord is mathematics."""