If you become a star known for one thing, that becomes your thing, and you don't want that, on some DNA level..

I'd rather buy something that is relatively depressed than something that is relatively high..

You have to take everything as it comes..

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford..

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away..

It's OK to not be OK - just don't stay there..

I'd rather work to live than live to work..

God is either everything, or He is nothing..

That is the manner in which I roll..

I'm not a lady, I'm a hellraiser.

We're endangered by our own success..

Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work.".

Not only does art imitate life but life imitates art. Perhaps we not only learn about life from stories, perhaps we make our lives through the storie….

Never Explain Anything.

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation..

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear..

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method..

A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, ….

There was a time when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be..

There will always be an underground..

Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principl….