Space travel is utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing. . . . It is all rather rot.

So, this is my life. And I’m the architect of my happiness and sadness.

People will oppose your progress. They will remind you of your past failures, belittle you, etc. The only way to stand against such opposition and belittling is to knowthe reason for your existence.

Americans are very practical folks. Accustomed to hard choices in their own lives, they are willing to give us in intelligence a lot of slack as we make the hard choices our profession demands.

Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.

I love the Bowl system. I've always been a proponent of the Bowl system. I think it's been great for college football, for this level.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply means that you have the wrong plan.

I asked a couple of months ago if anyone would like to start picketing the gas stations.

The furthest possible thing from the truth is that I hate or dislike women.

Stranger in a strange country.