Rota's personality is compatible with mine.

Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.

Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.

I am turned off when I see only formulas and symbols, and little text.

It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.

Thoughts are steered in different ways.

The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.

The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.

Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.

Jesus - “the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (Colossians 2:9).

The word is only a representation of the meaning, even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning.

Taggle was absorbed in the meat pie. ‘It’s covered in BREAD, ’ he huffed. ‘What fool has covered MEAT with BREAD?

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.

I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'

I'm not real good at romance.

We give physical exercise to the body, but neglect the heart. The exercise for the heart is uplifting the destitute and the suffering.