"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction."

"He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion."

"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united."

"There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior."

"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."

"I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down."

"To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool."

"Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band."