"I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences"

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

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact"

"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"

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

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow"

"The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today"

"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders"

"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow"

"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness"