“I’m very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.”

I’m basically a dinosaur. I don’t use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.

We could be the biggest pantyhose seller in America, but we don’t want to weaken the link in shoppers’ minds between Home Depot and do-it-yourself projects.

When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.

As a businessman, you have to trust people. To find two people who lied the way [Vick and Petrino] lied, that’s unique and that’s not Arthur’s fault. It’s not a flaw of Arthur’s. It’s a flaw of these two guys.

People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That’s utter nonsense.

Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.

Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

Listen.’ For being saved is not the point. Music saves nothing. Merciful, uncaring, it denies and breaks down all the shelters, the houses men build for themselves, that they may see the sky.

Love has nothing to do with good reasons.

I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.

Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.