Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.

Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases.

I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude.

I've always privately suspected that Jesus is in favor of revolutionaries, seeing as how he was a bit of one himself.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

There are different reasons to make movies.

The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.

I say, choose faith. Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism.

MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

Sincerity is a soul quality that God has given to every human being, but not all express it.

You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive.

When I was young, I was very technical about these things. I didn't like to admit to any intimate relation with what I was writing.