Teaching mathematics, like teaching any art, requires the ability to inspire the student. Inspiration requires marketing, and marketing requires stirring communication.

Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are " but "You are as good as I am."

Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.

I like to think of myself as a child of the world. I really am based in New York but I find that even though I'm based there, I'm gone more often than not.

Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.

Enron is now officially out of the energy business. They are now in a new business: confetti.

The path of violence has not yielded anything. Shed guns and adopt the path of peace, unity, goodwill and brotherhood.

I never really considered myself attractive, really. I was always kind of gangly in school.

The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.