【译文】 孔子说：“知道学习不如喜欢学习，喜欢学习不如以学习为快乐。”

I am not a hero of mathematics. I'm not even that successful; that is why I don't want to have everybody looking at me.

I don't follow the rules. I make the beat, then I break it.

True scientific progress requires both creativity and discipline.

I believe that any human life is worthy of being narrated, that it even deserves literature's illumination.

Leadership means making tough decisions today that will pay off decades from now.