I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.

And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.

The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.

I was always good at math and science and physics.

I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.

When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.

I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but the thankful heart... will find in every hour some heavenly blessings.

I love to go shopping at Target. They have so much stuff there, you can buy almost anything, it's really amazing.

I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.

What I like to think, and perhaps it is an adolescent thought, is that anything can happen. As long as you think that anything can happen, it will. We're all allowed to have our dreams.

It is harder to cut our gains than to cut our losses.

Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.

The intercourse between man and God reposes upon truths of another order than that of reason, upon a light different and more elevated than that which naturally enlightens created intelligences.

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind.

Everyone makes mistakes - mistakes are correctable.