"We are all part of the same story, but we tell it in different ways."

成功不在于你赚了多少钱，而在于你对人们生活的影响。

Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

I don't have any particular recipe [for developing new proofs] ... It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It's like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck you might find a way out.