Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.

The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.

Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?

To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last.

The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.

Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that principle.

I'm so sick of seeing these movies where married couples are just cuddling on the couch and caressing each other's faces.

I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that having a baby made my career.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once their tyranny and their divisions.

I am told that the Saudis have organized 34 countries who want to join in the battle against terrorism.

Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

I developed friends in the community that were in walking distance or a bicycle ride away, so that I socialized and did a lot of things that children do in their early years.

It's not the time to look for excuses.

Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.