I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

I just always thought, I love acting and I love writing. And when I haven't got any more good breath and good energy, then I'll write.

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

We need to see each child as a gift to be welcomed, cherished, and protected.

Death makes sad stories of us all.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.