"Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet."

“What do I actually mean when I say 'delusion'? I mean the absurdity of the claim that the excessive atomic armament of both sides creates a 'balance of terror' that reduces the danger of war; that in the long run it even offers a minimum of security. ... Hence the cynical saying: He who strikes first will die second.”

“I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours.”

“The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems.”

“I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.”

“I am not a creature of habit.”

“For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977”

“What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?”

Source : "Kindergarten Chats: (revised 1918) and Other Writings". Book by Louis Sullivan, Ch. 36: Another City, 1947.