The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

Aeschylus

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

Tom Hooper

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

Wayne Dyer

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.

Charlie Brooker

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

Henry Rollins

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Bo Bennett

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.

Charlie Sheen

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

Gertrude Stein

The person who lives with cripples will soon learn to limp.

Italian Proverb

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

L. Ron Hubbard

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Samuel Johnson

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Mao Zedong