My work has always tried to unite the True with the Beautiful and when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the Beautiful.

Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it!

... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession.

Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.

Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.

In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry.

A positive attitude turns "I can't & I won't, " into "I have & I WILL!

My philosophy? Practice, practice, practice and win.

One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

Every moment of life mattered. Even the perfect snowflake that alighted on his palm and melted in seconds.

Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.

The first step of a journey is always the longest.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

To call "A Lot like Love" dead in the water is an insult to water.

I believe in myself. There's nothing wrong with believing in myself. That's the whole idea, is that you can always become better.