Engineering is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege.

The sixth grade made my life successful by preparing me for the seventh and the seventh by preparing me for the eighth and so on. May it do the same for you.

The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.

Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.

My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.

No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.