If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.
The brain caps off its second and last growth spurt in your 20s as it rewires itself for adulthood.
To me, fearless is not the absence of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, fearless is living in spite of those things, every single day.
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the objet of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have cought happiness without dreaming of it.
The arithmetic of modular forms is a key to understanding the deeper mysteries of number theory.