If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty's horse to fly within the year - on the condition that if he didn't succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. "Within a year," the man explained later, "the king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly." My philosophy is like that man's. I take the long-range view.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

The stock market is people.

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.