Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.

In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.

Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives.

I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.

I'm not a person who can spontaneously say funny things.

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

First of all, these lenders are not babies. These are total killers. These are not the nice, sweet little people you think. You're living in a world of make-believe.

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else.

It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.

I think Bush is amateurish and self-serving, and frankly, it's disgusting.

Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking.