The key to success is to find patterns where others see randomness.

A man's character is his fate.

And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

Mathematics is a language that allows us to describe the indescribable.

"Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it."

"To write is to breathe, to live, to exist in a world of one's own creation."

Success is not about luck; it's about hard work, persistence, and making the right decisions.