Any good theorem should have several proofs, the more the better.

I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.

Would you rather be deaf or blind?

The aim of mathematics is to explain as much as possible in simple terms.

There is no clear-cut distinction between example and theory

Death is a fiction created by people who live their lives in total unawareness. There is only life, life and life alone, moving from one dimension to another, another dimension to another.

A champion's strength comes from never being contented.

So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.

I am certain that the safest way to defend your character is never to say a word about it.

The more games you get, the more confidence you gain. I started to set the bar high for myself.

Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die.

I did not know till now how irresolute a character was mine.

I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago... because she's going to have the nuclear code.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.