I always tell people, if you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
I'm not a person who thinks that everything happens for a reason, but I do believe that if you work hard and stay true to yourself, good things will come.
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.
If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law.