Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.

I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no good for kids.

Mathematics is as old as Man.

Sometimes it seems safer to have just enough God to get to heaven, but not so much that he radically alters our lives.

Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do.

I believe in empathy. When religion provides that for people, it's the best thing in the world.

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it

It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.

I'm not as bearish as many others about China. Why? Because China must grow. So I am far more optimistic about China.

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

The position you hold and the work you are now doing.

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us.