"Sun Tzu's ideas as expressed above had a profound effect on Ho Chi Minh, who sought to defeat both the French and the Americans without recourse to violence - or at least to conventional battle tactics."

“Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it may be, students and their teachers should at all times be engaged in the process - having ideas, not having ideas, discovering patterns, making conjectures, constructing examples and counterexamples, devising arguments, and critiquing each other's work.”

Source : "A Mathematician's Lament". Book by Paul Lockhart, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.

“I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.”

“For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom.”

“The reason they were designated as targets was to keep them from the witness stand and us. Is it just a coincidence that four years later they haven't been indicted”

“Jesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven.”

“I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.”

Source : Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.106, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.”

“American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.”