What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

The problem is, if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you'll also, by implication, and in a far more nasty way, believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there. I nother words, your position in life comes to seem not accidental, but merited and deserved. And that makes failure seem much more crushing.

Mathematics is not a spectator sport. You have to do it to understand it.

Curiosity drives the mathematician forward, always seeking the next question to answer.