"The foolhardy are not necessarily stupid, for fools simply follow their imagination whereas the stupid have none."

“They lifted their faces to the astonishing warmth. The sky arched over them, a pale, clear blue. Lina felt as though a lid that had been on her all her life had been lifted off. Light and air rushed though her, making a song, like the songs of Ember, only it was a song of joy. She looked at Doon and saw that he was smiling and crying at the same time, and she realized that she was, too.”

“Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.”

“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door, but only as long as it's not visible from the street.”

“The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.”

Source : Underwood Dudley, Gerald L. Alexanderson, Nathan Altshiller-Court, John Aubry, Girolamo Cardano (2008). “Is mathematics inevitable?: a miscellany”, The Mathematical Association of America

“Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.”

“No! Beauty is emotional! That's why plastic surgery never works. Women who want to change their nose, lips, they don't understand that they are doing nothing except erasing their magic.”

“I have wrangles with Facebook, entered fictitious trips because I can't get the map to get off my page, don't want people to know where I live. It is possible to carve out a space that's your own.”

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”