If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future...

The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.

I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.

Also, think about your intentionality - are you getting lost in the method? or coming from the intentionality, the purpose? You don't want to do the mechanics without the consciousness.

I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.

Gandhi, who went to Wendy's and asked, "Where's the belief?" Never got a dinner!

I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.

Heaven ain't hard to find; all you gotta do is look.

When it all comes down to it, life isn't about how much we get - it's about how much we share.