The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

Obviously everybody, if you’re playing in the league, you’ve got to have somewhat of an ego about how you play the game.

In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can’t compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan’s free market enthusiasms.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science – really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

It’s very strange to go to cities like London and New York. People walk so quickly, they seem to be in a hurry all the time. And you don’t say ‚Hi‘ to everyone you meet, and you don’t smile to everyone you meet, because there’s just so many. Which is also very strange.

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

I don’t know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the ‚Dust and Ashes Act,‘ any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

If you win two games, one game or three games, you can still say it’s luck. But when you win a championship over 18 games, it’s not luck.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.