My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Indeed, we're strongest when the face of America isn't only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. 

Insomnia works like slow poison on our body.

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

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

I should tie myself to a particular system of society other than of socialism.

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

There is tension all over the country. The party in Bengal has done substantial work. They have eliminated a few officers. The Englishmen are terrified. As a result, they have started sending their families to Britain. After some time, they will realise that they cannot exercise authority over India.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops. 

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.