Small sacrifices must be made.

No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.

We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure.

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

Live a fuller life.

To be what you always wanted to be, step away from conformity.

The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.

We do not believe in quotas. They would not only be undesirable, they would be illegal. There is legal protection for the autonomy of universities in running their own admission arrangements.

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

I do not think it is "selling America short" when we ask a great deal of her; on the contrary, it is those who ask nothing, those who see no fault, who are really selling America short!

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Evil thenceforth became my good.

The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family.