People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.

You have to smile, if you expect anybody to smile back.

You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.

Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?

As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.

People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.

The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast of delightfully quirky characters, and a math lesson or two; all together, a winning equation! When Rojstaczer writes about mathematics, you'd think he was writing about poetry.