Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.

You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.

Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.

I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.

I don't even possess a car. I ride in auto-rickshaws because I like to be a part of the masses. I don't want to single myself out as someone up and above.

One name by itself can't fully represent God's majesty & power.

An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity.

Winning means everything...You show me a good loser and I'll show a loser.

A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.

Some of us are more favorably disposed than others.

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us.

I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children.