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.

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

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

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 remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible.""Shakespeare, " Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

There is great beauty in the world but you will not trip over it with every step. When a man dulls himself to beauty, the world begins to die.

I am what my past allows me to be.

Creativity is an inherent ability that cannot be taught, only developed.

Bittersweet is kind of my own favourite style because I want to be able to cry to the same song that I also can laugh to.

It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.

I've just found the stories of the people I'm talking to much more interesting than my reactions to them.

[Barack Obama] still fighting these mysterious, powerful forces trying to stop him, yet he's the president.

As you know, the best way to solve a problem is to identify the core belief that causes the problem; then mock that belief until the people who hold it insist that you heard them wrong.

Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.