Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

I must endure to the end.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

The world thanks you for sharing Nelson Mandela with us.

When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.

Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.

It's hard to articulate what everybody else is feeling.

The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry.

The more you're able to understand how to do a good dramatic performance, that can inform your comedy. It all informs one another. And it keeps everything interesting.

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.