Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.

With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.

Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.

You can't stop people printing what they want to print.

The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.

Mystical powers develop primarily through the raising of the kundalini. The Kundalini is a type of energy that exists within all things. It's possible to pull that energy, to mass it, to transmit it.

Jesse Helms has never been an invincible man.

One day you're in. The next day you're out.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.

While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are challenges to act.

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.