The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

We risk great peril if we kill off this spirit of adventure, for we cannot predict how and in what seemingly unrelated fields it will manifest itself. A nation that loses its forward thrust is in danger, and one of the most effective ways to retain that thrust is to keep exploring possibilities. The sense of exploration is intimately bound up with human resolve, and for a nation to believe that it is still committed to a forward motion is to ensure its continuance.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.

You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

A group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.