The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.

Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical geometry. Out with them!

We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.

Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas.

Yes, I'm back, " he said, "And look who I ran into."Horace grinned at him. "i hope you ran into him hard.""As hard as I could.

Sighing dismally, she acknowledged that some things just weren't humanly possible - not even Martha Stewart could fold fitted sheets.

It's better to swallow pride than blood.

Sometimes you just gotta accept that hope is gone.

Like beliefs, in most cases, we don’t create our values… others do.

Nothing really belongs to us but time which even he has who has nothing else.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.

In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.

If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible balance, he no doubt will end up as a failure.