People (or students) do not have shortcomings, only uniquenesses. The goal of a good teacher is to turn these uniquenesses into advantages.

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught.

My seminar is for highschool students, decent undergraduates, bright graduates, and outstanding professors.

The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem.

If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.

... The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much more complicated.

When I look at my bookcase and see one book after the other lined up upon its shelves I think to myself, There is a God.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

I did some writing. I was just taking the kids to school. I did a couple things and we did some tours. It was a lot of downtime.

She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!