The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid.

Life is like a bracelet...It has little jewels around it which are like the little bright moments that come along in our lives every now and then...

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

All artists are slightly narcissistic.

Those of us who have been fortunate have a duty to give back.Whether one gives a lot as one goes along as I do, or a little and then a lot (when one dies) as Warren does, is a matter of personal preference.