I don't believe in the concept of a 'leading man'. I believe in the concept of a 'leading human being'.
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and they who have so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but their own dispositions will waste their lives in fruitless efforts.
The challenge of architecture is to balance function and poetry.
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
The arithmetic of algebraic varieties is a window into the hidden structures of mathematics.