Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.