"A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen."

"One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak."

"All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry."

"Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University."

"Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men."

"My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California."

"In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated."