I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

Always expect that something beautiful and wonderful will happen to fill life with beauty.

We can't win the world with weapons or violence.We can win the world with love and practice of nonviolence.

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

The problem is all inside your head, she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free There must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.