The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are able to love, to share, to go into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

The night is a canvas, and we are the paint.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.