The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.