One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.

I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you.

In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us.

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.

Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there.

...nothing cements a friendship like hating the same person.

There is definitely a positive aspect of anger such as, anger at sin and anger at ungodliness or injustice of the society.

You cannot use another man's leg to run your race. Wives stop waiting for your husbands to do everything. For God's sake make an impact. Nobody is a threat to your development.

In order to be a success, you must think like success. Get up and move! You got to make things happen.

Reality, in its essence, consists not of particles interacting pointlessly in anindependent physical plane, but rather of values, psychological elements ofmind, made real.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

As the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory.

If we had those 40 million children that were [aborted] over the last 30 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today.

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.