There is something that happens when we leave the land and enter the ocean. It's unexpected, the environment feels strangely welcoming. The ocean almost feels like... home.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Ask not that the journey be easy; ask instead that it be worth it.

Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.

There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady.