Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.

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.

Always be intentional and purposeful in life

If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there’s no sense telling the story.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Yoga is so much more about the instructor than it is about the practice itself. It's their point of view and the way they teach that makes the experience so special and opens things up for me.

Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."

You cannot live in the best city in the world and have people living on the streets.

All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.

To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know.

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.

I dream too much, work too little.