You can be in love with solitude

It was amazing what an hour with her sketchpad could do for her mood. She was sure that the lines she drew with her black marker were going to save her years of worry lines in the future.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of poems. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

My upbringing involves individuals who helped me along the way. I don't think I would be here today without that support.

The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy.

I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

Our success depends very largely upon how well we negotiate our way through our daily contacts with other people without friction or opposition.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now its nascent.

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

You can't treat a car like a human being. A car requires love.