Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should be avoided completely.

Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.

Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

... it can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.

Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.

Volume grows spatially slower than scaling.

I don't want tobecause boysdon't write poetry.Girls do.

A man need is pain to be delivered from the pleasure of sin.

As Gansey led the way out, Noah said to Ronan, “I know why you’re mad.”Ronan sneered at him, but his pulse heaved. “Tell me then, prophet.”Noah said, “It’s not my job to tell other people’s secrets.

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

You can always forgive, you just can't really forget.

What people might find surprising: I taught my wife to change diapers when we had our first.

I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.

Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.