Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it need only patience to ransack; it is not a mine, whose treasures may take long to reduce to possessions, but which fill only a limited number of vein...
I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.
Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.
My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.
We are the same, you and I. Whether samurai or night-hawk, the Suruga Dainagon or member of the Toudouza, it makes no difference. My sword is the proof....
My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.
The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.
It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.
The past is obdurate. ― Stephen King, 11/22/63
Whether you're a mother or father, or a husband or a son, or a niece or a nephew or uncle, breast cancer doesn't discriminate.
To be publishing Stephen King, to be a friend to Stephen, when he is absolutely what got me into this business, is a really neat thing and something I don't take for granted.
I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.
I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.
You don't have to be Pope Julius to have great art in your house.
I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.'
In terms of economic growth, PIMCO originated the famous phrase the 'new normal.'
My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics.
Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses.
If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.
I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.
