I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

I’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‚Molecular Biology of the Gene.‘

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

The environment is everything that isn’t me.

Steve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

As a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it’s a long, long way from England. Which is why, when we bought Necker Island, we made it like a mini Bali.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

I don’t want a brat on my team.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

I was born in Europe… and I’ve traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.

My first popular book, ‚A Brief History of Time,‘ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.