I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world

I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

What makes you different is what makes you stronger. You are a masterpiece uniquely designed by God. You can have tremendous victories, love, and abundance.

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

Literature is the expression of society.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

...chance may do anything.

My life has been a series of emergencies.

I really like figure skating.

When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my stomach that wasn't an ache but something different.

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.