The play is independent of the pages on which it is printed, and ‘pure geometries’ are independent of lecture rooms, or of any other detail of the physical world.

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than their, it is because they are made with ideas.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of poems. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

In the very center of your being, life begins in silence and in joy.

I want you to be my black vulture:forever monogamous!

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Libraries and demons," she muttered. "What is the attraction?

Women need to support other women, not cut them down. And that goes for recognizable women too.

Jesus specialized in menial tasks that everyone else tried to avoid: washing feet, helping children, fixing breakfast, and serving lepers. Nothing was beneath him, because he came to serve.

My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.

Even people who don't share my specific faith (denomination, beliefs, etc.) are typically enthusiastic about my profession of faith in God and my commitment to living to God-given standards.