"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

"Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them."

The existing is already a resource.