Some of my favorite quotes!

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park


They can conquer who believe they can.
-Virgil



It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-Aristotle


Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-Mark Twain


Time after time has the mathematical world offered refuge for young minds yearning to escape from a real world they cannot cope with.
-Marcus du Sautoy "The Music of the Primes"


Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
-Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)


Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
-Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), The Nature of the Physical World


I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.
- John Forbes Nash

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
-Alfred North Whitehead


I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
Bob Dylan

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.
Bob Dylan

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
-Henry David Thoreau, Walden

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
-Thomas Edward Lawrence (of Arabia)