However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

Always try the problem that matters most to you.

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

I never use a computer.

Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.

You will always find all the time you need in the world to do what you love. If you can’t find the time, it’s not important for you

As you become your own advocate and your own steward, your life will beautifully transform.

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

Oh, if we would only remember who God is!

Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness.

Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.

Together with the rise of the internet, September 11 and its aftermath has changed most of our lives.

The traditional rules for having children are long gone. Some days I feel like the harder choice is to not have a kid.

There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.

I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.