And for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is right, in any case. Rainer Maria Rilke.
We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement. Hermann Hesse.
Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world. Robert Langlands.
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics. Carl Friedrich Gauss.