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

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.

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.

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

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

...whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his.

The greatest joy of the oppressed people, is enjoying his freedom while, the greatest misfortune of the oppressors is to suffer for the joy of his people.

The season of Christmas brings joy, hope and peace.

For those who have known pain and suffering and wondered why it all happened... I don’t know the reasons why, I just know that you must keep believing in hope and eventually you will get through.

We can good deed by God’s grace.

I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.

Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.

The theater was my mother and my father.

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.