Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

In order to solve this differential equation you look at it until a solution occurs to you.

It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.

Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.

Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.

It may be more important in the mathematics class how you teach than what you teach.

If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.

An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

Mathematics is not a spectator sport!

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

Clay lies still but blood's a rover Breath's a ware that will not keep Up lad when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.

People just get kicks out of making other people sad.

There's nothing in my head that's worth anything at all because it's the culture that put it there.

She [ Elizabeth II] is, you know, "Do-what-you're-told, Lady". But in the Commonwealth, she is much more than just a figurehead.

To be a successful boxer, the last thing you need to be doing is turning up to the gym stoned. You're going to get beaten up if you do that.

We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.