"A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it."
Success is not about being the best, but about being better than you were yesterday.
A good mathematician is lazy, but in a constructive way.
"The past is a ghost that haunts the present, whether we acknowledge it or not."
The only real failure is not trying.
Every artist is a child of his time, but the great ones are also the parents of the future.
We are all our own prisons, and our own jailers.