God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it!

Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession.

Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.

Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.

In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry.

A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.

Never judge the life of another man.

Fears can stop dreams, but not regrets

If you can't take a good kicking, you shouldn't parade how much luckier you are than other people.

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

It goes back to the early days in the kitchen where you would be tasting dishes all night long, so the last thing I want to do in the morning is eat. Chefs generally tend to be grazers.

And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.

I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.

We do many things we shouldn't in the course of a life. It doesn't make them right or wrong, just a part of who we are.

I am recognizing that the voice inside my head Is urging me to be myself, but never follow someone else Because opinions are like voices, we all have a different kind.

When you get to know your self, you get to know everyone and everything on the planet.