Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people

Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work.

Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

Patience is for those who can't be bothered with procrastination!

One day we shall all face the truth and reality that we all hate.

If you can't bear it, dare it.

Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.

My philosophy about the whole thing is that awards are like gifts: it's lovely to receive them, and it is very bad form to covet them.

We are going to take care of our law enforcement because in some ways that's going hand in hand now more and more when you see what's going on.

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity.

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story

Although much of the media have their antennae out to pick up anything that might be construed as racism against blacks, they resolutely ignore even the most blatant racism by blacks against others.