Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

Faith is the flame that eliminates fear, and faith is the emperor of dreams.

As you know from the Italian expression, the fish stinks from the head down. What I can tell you two fish that don't stink, okay, and that's me and the President.

C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on.

Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

The sooner you get something started the more likely you get to be successful, get started today!

Don't waste your love on stupid people. Anyone stupid enough to deny or reject it-in the midst of the Love Depression we're in-does not deserve it.

Study prophecies when they are become histories.

I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away.

I don't believe in the scraping of stuff. Take the existing condition, offer up a diagnosis for what's wrong, and a prescription for making it work.

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.