The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. 

Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

The foundation of nation building rests on education.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. 

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. 

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.