A Christian never falls asleep in the fire or in the water, but grows drowsy in the sunshine.
Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes.
. . . mathematics is very much like poetry. . . what makes a good poem -- a great poem -- is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few words. In this sense formulas like or are poems.
There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones.
In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me the needs of the other.
There lives at least one being who can never change-one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness-who lives but in your eyes-who breathes but in your smiles-who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.
When you don’t have resources, you become resourceful.
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.