We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.

Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives.

I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.

Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.

Today be more excellent than demanded. And more generous than expected.

Luxury items are those things that are mass-produced by a third party and marketed to us to purchase so that we can express our individuality.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose.

The Vatican takes your breath away.

Adventure, I well know, is in the heart, not in the view.

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

That movie [War for the Planet of the Apes] is incredibly engaging; it's what drives the emotion of all these films. So tonight, we're going to show a long sequence that's actually going to be.