Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.

God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.

You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.

It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.

There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.

There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.

Property is a nuisance.

Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten

In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.

Realize your strengths, accept your weaknesses, but never become someone you don't recognize.

But our country's equivalent of gritty reality is more like "Look out Sarge, he's got a shooter!"

When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I’m feeling.

He was a specialist in Feng Shui; that is to say, he was consulted as to the correct ubication and orientation of houses and temples, in relation to the spirits of wind and water.

Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they used the flawed intelligence to mislead.

Hee that lives ill, feare followes him.

I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

You gain nothing by becoming cowards.