The first time you share tea with a Balti, you are a stranger. The second time, you are an honored guest. The third time you become family.
君子勇于改正错误，小人则文过饰非。
The most profound truths are often the ones we take for granted.
我不是刻意保持神秘，我只是不喜欢谈论自己。
Mathematics is not a deductive science—that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.
No hay literatura sin riesgo, sin aventura.
——回忆首次前赴檀香山
I'm not arrogant, I just believe I'm the best.