To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. 

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new. 

And no, we don't know where it will lead. You just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does become tainted.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

One of the greatest disease is to be nobody to anybody.

If you take others for granted, God may do the same thing with you.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. 

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. 

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.