I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

Power is the ability to get things done.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Hyman Rickover

Of course, we all inevitably work too hard, then we get burned out and have to spend the whole weekend in our pajamas, eating cereal straight out of the box and staring at the TV in a mild coma (which is the opposite of working, yes, but not exactly the same thing as pleasure).

Elizabeth Gilbert

We don't invade countries for the reasons we're told or we would've done a lot of things about a lot of things. They tell you things like they hate freedom so you're okay with them attacking but it's for other reasons.

James Dye

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Dorothea Brande

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

Martha Beck

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Jean Francois Regnard

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Adlai Stevenson

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.

Anatole France

Well, I'm not a crook.

Richard Milhous Nixon

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Kerr, Jean

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson