It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

To enhance your inner beauty, harmonize your mind and thoughts with nature through meditation.

It's oneiric, a beautiful, formless sequence of silver nitrate shadows, and when it ends I wonder what happened, and then I begin to rebuild it in my head

Love can touch us one time And last for a life time And never let go till We're gone.

An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.

You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.

Anything that can be dreamed is true.

In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.

First romance, first love, is something so special to all of us, both emotionally and physically, that it touches our lives and enriches them forever.

The Democrat Party can't provide, can't take care of, cannot provide prosperity for people.

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.