I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascal… like all great astronomers mathematicians of the past.

Men pass away, but their deeds abide. [His last words.]

As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the reasons drawn from the generality of algebra.

...love is a chemical imbalance, too. That perilous highs and desperate lows and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of a beating heart.

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define us.

We are what we adapt to.

Ah tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past What is recalled by faded flowers Save that they did not last?

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or a vulnerability built into their very core.

I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.

Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a pure intellect.

A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.