Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than their, it is because they are made with ideas.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of poems. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

The play is independent of the pages on which it is printed, and ‘pure geometries’ are independent of lecture rooms, or of any other detail of the physical world.

I breathe in...the fragranceof love, and moist sandthe onehis roses lefton both my handsI just keep on breathingevery momentas much as I canpreserving it, in my bodyfor the dayit can’t.

It wasn’t good. It was good in the beginning and I held on to that.

It's bizarre, a punch in the face hurts less when you win than when you lose.

Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work.

I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.

I love to do the things the censors won't pass.

Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.

An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed.

To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.

I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.