Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

Success is dependent on effort.

Sophocles

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.

Sylvester Stallone

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Danish proverb

An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late.

Proverb

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Warren Bennis

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Samuel Johnson

If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.

John Mayer

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

Bryan Ferry

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Franz Kafka

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

Terry Pratchett

O!, many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word at random spoken May soothe, or wound, a heart that 's broken!

Sir Walter Scott, Lord of the Is