Every problem in mathematics is an opportunity to learn something new.

"The best investment you can make is in yourself."

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.

我们讲述的故事塑造了我们生活的世界。

译文：顺着可以利用的形势，寻求容易实现的道路。