Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Chinese Proverb

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

Daniel Radcliffe

Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.

Henry Adams

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

Babe Ruth

The question was whether James would love me if I was someone else.

Barbara Delinsky

But oh, how slowly minutes roll When absent from her eyes, That feed my love, which is my soul: It languishes and dies.

John Wilmot (2nd Earl of Rochest

Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.

Joyce Meyer

I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.

Sydney Brenner

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Pir Vilayat Khan

Does not the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

Ralph Waldo Emerson