In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians.

The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.

Get out of your own way... stop the paralysis by analysis... dream your dream... then, WAKE UP and bring it to life!

My favourite thing is when my mother goes in the other to go and to talk to the phone, I use that moment for wisdom.

Your actions are catalysts to another’s actions. One could last a second, another could last to the end of mankind. Share kindness, plant the seed, help humanity overcome their greed.

Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.

I do force myself to sleep with myself to get the job. But that's always a disappointment.

Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard.

Sexuality has always been for humans a form of communication, a way we express love and caring and bonding, not only a way we have children if we choose to.

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

Must a man then live as his fellows live, and never reach beyond?" —Georyn