"I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth."

“To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.”

Source : "Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs". Book by Hans Arp, Gallimard, Paris, p. 571 (the book gathers almost all Arp's writings in prose and some important poetry), 1966.

“Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment, in openness and contentment I found the Truth in my heart. By simply relaxing in this uncontrived, open, and natural state, we obtain the quality of effortless freedom of whatever arises.”

“It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.”

Source : "Lou Dobbs Tonight" with Jan Hopkins, www.cnn.com. July 16, 2003.

“I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.”

“Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.”

“With the computer and programming languages, mathematics has newly-acquired tools, and its notation should be reviewed in the light of them. The computer may, in effect, be used as a patient, precise, and knowledgeable "native speaker" of mathematical notation.”

Source : "Math for the Layman" by Kenneth E. Iverson, Ch. 10, §D, www.cs.trinity.edu. 1999.

“Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?”

“I think it's an accumulation of work over the years, culminating with our work during the Hurricane Katrina-Rita relief effort.”