“Better balance, less pain and less restless leg syndrome.”

Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.

A line is length without breadth.

A prime number is one (which is) measured by a unit alone.

In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

If produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than two right angles.

Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns.

And the whole is greater than the part.

Things which are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another.

That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines.

Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it’s just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I’ve found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force … The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.

Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

Let there be balance in every phase of life – unification instead of friction.

Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes