Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.

The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.