The beginner should not be discouraged if he finds he does not have the prerequisites for reading the prerequisites.

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces.

The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.

A smooth lecture... may be pleasant; a good teacher challenges, asks, irritates and maintains high standards - all that is generally not pleasant.

A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one.

It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.

Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants.

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success.

I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene - and it is over for 20 years.

Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.

I cant live without activity; I cant be sedentary.

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.

He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.