My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.

Today i want to talk to you, and you don't have time. Tomorrow you would desperately want to talk to me and I won't be around

The next best thing after finishing writing a chapter is starting a new one.

When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence.

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.

Life is full of miracles, but they're not always the ones we pray for.

Congratulations on your well deserved retirement, Wishing you every happiness in the years ahead. No lying about your age, more lying around the house After lying much longer in bed

But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.

I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.

Time is money, every moment is costly, So I ration emotion, 'cause existence exhausts me.