Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere, like
that of sculpture. -Bertand Russell, Mysicism and Logic, 1918

I couldn't help but say to Mr. Gorbachev just think how easy his task and
mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a
threat to this world from another planet. We'd find out once and for all
that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.
Ronald Reagan
At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths -your
abilities and your failings.
T. S. EliotBeauty is the gift of God. --Aristotle