Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.
Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.
To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.
A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.
My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.
Since the age of six, I have had a passion for drawing things. Now that I am 75 years, I have finally learned something of the true quality of birds, animals, insects, fishes, and of the vital nature of grasses and trees. By the time I am 89, I shall have made more progress. By the time I am 90, I shall understand the deeper meaning of things. When I am 100, I shall be truly marvelous; and at 110 each dot and each line will possess a life of its own.
Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.