There Is No Such Thing As Talent.

All Failures - Neurotics, Psychotics, Criminals, Drunkards, Problem Children, Suicides, Perverts, And Prostitutes - Are Failures Because They Are Lacking In Social Interest

Follow Your Heart But Take Your Brain With You.

Death Is Really A Great Blessing For Humanity, Without It There Could Be No Real Progress. People Who Lived For Ever Would Not Only Hamper And Discourage The Young, But They Would Themselves Lack Sufficient Stimulus To Be Creative.

There Is No Thing As A Man Who Does Not Create Mathematics And Yet Is A Fine Mathematics Teacher. Textbooks, Course Material-these Do Not Approach In Importance The Communication Of What Mathematics Is Really About, Of Where It Is Going, And Of Where It Currently Stands With Respect To The Specific Branch Of It Being Taught. What Really Matters Is The Communication Of The Spirit Of Mathematics. It Is A Spirit That Is Active Rather Than Contemplative-a Spirit Of Disciplined Search For Adventures Of The Intellect. Only As Adventurer Can Really Tell Of Adventures.

More Important Than Innate Disposition, Objective Experience, And Environment Is The Subjective Evaluation Of These. Furthermore, This Evaluation Stands In A Certain, Often Strange, Relation To Reality.