It is about one's wisdom that came with the years of hardship.

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. 

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others have not been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.