The next-most difficult thing in the world is to get perspective. The most difficult is to keep it.

Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.

The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.

Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.

Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.

But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.

I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress.

Pretend was a big part of my childhood.

She brushed her eyelashes against his chest.

Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.

Travel is like a tonic to me. It's more than just getting away from the studio for a brief rest. I need it to recharge my batteries.

Tears are words waiting to be spoken

I live my life based on 2 principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.

Let not one look of Fortune cast you down; she were not Fortune if she did not frown.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.