“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”

“The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.”

“The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.”

“Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.”

“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong.”

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”