Mom, why do you laugh so much? / Because I have you as my daughter.
Here's an insight that I've had about success: You can't be successful at everything. We hear a lot of talk about work-life balance. Nonsense. You can't have it all. You can't. So any vision of success has to admit what it's losing out on, where the element of loss is. And I think any wise life will accept, as I say, that there is going to be an element where we're not succeeding.
I don't want to be a king; I want to be a god.
The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
The poet's pen is mightier than the warrior's sword.