Don't be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately,I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life, and not when I had come to die, Discover that I had not lived.

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.

"A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's."

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.