My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it.

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!

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

Your success lies in your ability to believe in yourself

When you’re always scheming about ways to make money, it’s like a part of you is lost.

Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities.

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.

I'm totally normal. I think it's obnoxious when people demand limos or bodyguards. I eat at McDonald's or Taco Bell. My parents always taught us to be humble. We're not spoiled.