"During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk"

"The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines"

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days"

"The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life"

"It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day"

"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day"

"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"

"Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one"

"I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love"

"Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"