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

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

“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.”

“A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.”

“When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?”

“If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?”

“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.”