With mathematics we stand precisely at that intersection of bondage and freedom that is the essence of the human itself.

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

Leadership means welcoming the truth, that there might be a more skilled one than you.

I am in love with what I am doing, because the answer to this problem is right here in my mind, and soon - very soon - it will burst into consciousness.

He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.

Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don't pitch every journalist.

Without your right to have money that holds it's value, all else just fails because you don't have any real money.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

It is a good thing I no longer have a heart, because if I did, it would surely break.

Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.