If you want to be the best, you have to be able to handle the worst.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

"What is a hero without love for mankind?"

不能控制自己情绪的法官，永远无法控制他人的情绪。

The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

The study of L-functions is a window into the hidden structure of numbers.