"I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own."

“What if you believed that everything in life was like a prize? What if you thought of the world as a big random drawing, and you were always winning things, the world offering them up with a big grin, like an emcee's: Here you go, Hollis. Here is a motorcycle. Here is a little boy who loves you. Here is a weird experience, here is something bad that you should mull over because it will make you a better person. What if you could think that life was this free vacation you'd won, and you won just because you happened to be alive?”

“Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and inevitable, but it is impossible to foresee their consequences. These have only been found out by long study, extending over many centuries. Much of our knowledge is due to a comparatively few great mathematicians such as Newton, Euler, Gauss, or Riemann; few careers can have been more satisfying than theirs. They have contributed something to human thought even more lasting than great literature, since it is independent of language.”

Source : "Mathematical Maxims and Minims". Book by Nicholas J. Rose, 1986.

“Usually, you don't really end up lifelong buddies with your co-stars.”

Source : Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2012.

“I studied medicine so I could help others - set a leg or whatever - and it's given me a great deal of satisfaction.”

“People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.”

“More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.”

“Geniuses are justifiably contemptuous of the opinions of their inferiors.”

“Nobody should be entirely defined by one thing”

Source : Lea Michele (2014). “Brunette Ambition”, p.32, Crown Archetype