I always sang and I always wrote. . . it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.
The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.
It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which science is put, in resolving the many public policy questions that scientific discoveries constantly force upon us.
Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.
We keep saying, 'We have no other course. ' What we should say is: 'We are not bright enough to see any other course. '
Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life, he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbours, his fellow men, and the cause of freedom.
Within the next few years-a decade perhaps-we should be in a position to unlock new knowledge about life and matter so great that wholly new concepts of human life will follow in the wake of this new knowledge.
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.
Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
I'm really suspicious of anybody who comes in and says, this is your identity now, or this is your belief system, and now that you have this, everything's going to be great.
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.