"Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today"

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today"

"I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today"

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true"

"All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome"

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow"

"Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!"

"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day"

"When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today"

"German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture"