"Plans are worthless, but planning is everything."

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice."

"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."

"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."

"Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed."

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo."

"The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing."

"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self."

"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day."

"'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy."