To preserve my brains I want food and this is now my first consideration. Any sympathetic letter from you will be helpful to me here to get a scholarship.

An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.

No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.

a room without boooks like a body without soul

What matters is what appears in your soul, not what your eyes see and what you can name.

For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted.

Make walks in the nights to benefit from the education of silence!

That's what everyone forgets these days: there's a fine line between sanity and insanity. Lots of people are on the edge. We can't be in perfect balance all the time.

No one respects the First Amendment more than I do. People have a right to express their concerns and their hopes and dreams to their government.

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

Until death it is all life.