Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.

Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should be avoided completely.

... it can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.

Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.

Volume grows spatially slower than scaling.

In running back and forth among the things that might be important, we forget to spend enough time on what really is important.

Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now

I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Do you remember when we played in Spain in the Anglo-Italian Cup?

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.