The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
The writer’s duty is to be a troublemaker, a disturber of the peace.
Life is about creating yourself.
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
The Erdős discrepancy problem fascinated me because it was so simple to state yet so deep in its implications.