The open secret of real success is to throw your whole personality into your problem.

In order to solve this differential equation you look at it until a solution occurs to you.

It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.

Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.

Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.

It may be more important in the mathematics class how you teach than what you teach.

If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.

An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

Mathematics is not a spectator sport!

Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

You must realize that whenever you waste a second you are wasting life. If you waste a minute, you have wasted life and if you waste an hour, you have wasted life.

Everything good you see is a product of time well spent

Leaders today should be more conductors than solo artists

Why am I covered in feathers?" I asked, confused. He exhaled impatiently. "I bit a pillow. Or two...

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.

I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.