Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.

Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.

AB=1/4((A+B)^2-(A-B)^2) is an amazing identity, and unfortunately, I have to remind my current students how to prove it.

I was reminded of the Sydney Harris cartoon that said 'adding two numbers that have not been added before does not constitute a mathematical breakthrough'.

Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead.

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.

Well, as you know, there are 24 hours in every day. And if that's not enough, you've always got the nights!

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

Why should things be easy to understand?

Politics is applied anywhere, even in heaven.

I rather like the world. The flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

White supremacy has taught white people to be racially, culturally, & politically illiterate.

Desire and happiness cannot live together.

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is

In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; He who loves, finds the door open.