[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

It’s not what you do – it’s what you are becoming.

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.

Inspiration comes from the heart. The letter ‘I’ is the heart of F”I”RST… (F Inspiration R S T).

David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic.

The greatest place you can be is in a person's thoughts and prayers.

You are nothing less than a miracle!

I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.

It won't be pleasant." "Nothing ever is.

Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.

The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

One of the important things is that a lot of people forget that a biker club is a secret society.

It’s unbelievable how you can affect someone else so deeply and never know.