“Great minds talk about ideas; small minds talk about people.”

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.

We are the sum total of all the choices we have made.

Courage is exhilarating.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can’t be done.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure.

Be confident, not certain

A great deal of fear is a result of just not knowing.

We do not have to become heroes overnight.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

We obtain our education at home, at school, and, most important, from life itself.

I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.

No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

Never give a human the job of making you happy. Some days, they might call you sick. Other days they might call quit.

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.