The deepest problems in mathematics often arise from the simplest questions.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is not more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relations.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father.