Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for having on hand a good supply of those pocket books, which were so common in that period. I must have read a couple hundred of them, and they did a lot to save my sanity.

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle.

Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don’t portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope.

We are never prepared for what we expect.