The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

I became the Dalai Lama not on a voluntary basis.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Don’t get carried away by others’ opinions, they may be mischievous or motivated.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure. 

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.