The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
聪明智慧的人,要保持着敦厚拙朴的态度,不可锋芒毕露;功高盖世的人,要保持着谦虚礼让的态度,不可居功自傲。勇猛无敌的人,要保持着小心谨慎的态度,不可无所忌惮;拥有巨财的人,要保持着如有不足的态度,不可张狂放肆。
I don't have any particular recipe [for developing new proofs] ... It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It's like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck you might find a way out.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.