愤怒的陶醉，如葡萄之醉，向他人展示我们，却对我们自己隐藏。
"To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone--just writing."
On new ideas: "There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery."
Success is measured not just by profit, but by the positive impact we leave behind.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
The study of Shimura varieties is a testament to the power of geometric intuition.