"I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me."

“I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.”

Source : Jules Breton (1891). “The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature”

“Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.”

Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation

“Until you have a son of your own . . . you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son. You will never know the sense of honor that makes a man want to be more than he is and to pass something good and hopeful into the hands of his son. And you will never know the heartbreak of the fathers who are haunted by the personal demons that keep them from being the men they want their sons to be.”

“Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.”

“My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation.”

Source : New York Arts Magazine, December 2008.

“There's a branch of math called the foundations of math. It's kind of like quantum mechanics. It's about how this very complex theory of math can be built up from very basic parts.”

“Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ***** is at!”

“Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.”

Source : "Mathematics, Magic and Mystery". Book by Martin Gardner (p. 9), 1956.