For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States.

I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

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.

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