Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

To see a World in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a wild flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour.

Understand that you can’t achieve your dreams if you don’t connect with people who guide you to improve on upon the skills you have.

A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.

Tis by no means the least of life's rules: To let things alone.

Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders

There are a lot of different things that are spinning and connecting when your family sees what you do.

I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.

So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

I went camping and borrowed a circus tent by mistake. I didn't notice until I got it set up. People complained because they couldn't see the lake.