I generally don't regret decisions that have poor outcomes for me because that's the best way you can learn.

I don't care how good you are at it, but if you don't enjoy playing drums, you aren't in touch with a facet of your humanity. Really.

Man is guaranteed only those rights which he can defend.

Fear is always triggered by creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome. This is nothing to be ashamed of. It is, however, something to be dealt with.

During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.

I have a nice house. And when somebody says it's a palace, I always feel like we're digging a little or something.

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.

The key to the utilization of atomic energy for world peace will be found in the will of all people to restrict its use for the betterment of mankind.

High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

When I came to Washington, I was troubled to observe so many similarities between the behaviors of drug-addicted patients and my political colleagues. In Washington power is like morphine.