The students I have come in contact with at Harvard are highly competent individuals who prefer to be challenged and respond well to encouragement.

We need to be challenged, ... and we need to be under the gun to respond.

To solve math problems, you need to know the basic mathematics before you can start applying it.

If I were to try and find a unifying emotion that kept me calm and focused while I was dancing or writing or solving a math problem, I think the one unifying thing about all those that keeps my interest is creativity.

I do sing a bit, a solo called 'Rubies,' and the female vocals on 'In Paradisum,' 'The Sound of Silence,' and 'Sapphire Clouds'.

The most valuable aid I have found in teaching is to remember my own experiences as a student.