A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one.

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces.

The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.

A smooth lecture... may be pleasant; a good teacher challenges, asks, irritates and maintains high standards - all that is generally not pleasant.

The beginner should not be discouraged if he finds he does not have the prerequisites for reading the prerequisites.

It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.

Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants.

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest - without asking to be paid.

I know the Lord loves me.

Be inspired by possibilities and never be discouraged by obstacles

The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die.

Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

The issue here is not gun control. And it's not even astronomical cost overruns, although those are serious. What's really inexcusable is that Parliament was in the dark.

I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.