It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

Life, to me, is like fishing: you won’t catch anything until you start, and every year you get older is another year the fish might slip through the net.

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

& I'm all up all up all up in the bank with the funny face

I'm afraid a lot of people have lost a lot of money over the years betting on me.

And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween.

Once best friends now strangers with memories.

Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.