Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

我对某物因为有人说它是艺术而成为艺术这个想法感兴趣。

"To be a writer is to acknowledge the secret wounds that we carry inside."

世界上最好和最美丽的东西是看不见甚至摸不着的——它们必须用心去感受。

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well.

So that morning in 1962 I told myself: Let everyone else call your idea crazy . . . just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where “there” is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop.

And gladly would learn， and gladly teach.