You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
America is the best half-educated country in the world.
The modern university does not exist to teach alone. . . It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament. . . The university rests on the public will and on public appreciation.
The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method
The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what freedom means.
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the history of philosophy records-of Lobachevsky and Riemann, Gauss and Sylvester. Indeed, mathematics, the indispensable tool of the sciences, defying the senses to follow its splendid flights, is demonstrating today, as it never has been demonstrated before, the supremacy of the pure reason.
Power, true power, comes from the belief in true things, and the willingness to stand behind that belief, even if the universe itself conspires to thwart your plans. Chaos may settle; flames may die; worlds may rise and fall. But true things will remain so, and will never fail to guide you to your goals.
We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.
Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.
Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.