I think we all have a little bit of that fear of failure, and that's what drives us to succeed.

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths."

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

Mathematics is not a spectator sport; to understand it, one must engage with it actively.