I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that and I would hope somebody liked me.

I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.

By the Obama administration's reasoning it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man I shall be satisfied.

Happiness is an imaginary condition formerly attributed by the living to the dead now usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history beyond our language beyond the links that have united us for so long what unites us today is the future.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart and what I contributed to the house was I was the funny one.

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear but not that thing.

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication that it's contributed to better health care that it's contributed to better food supplies that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.

And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody you have economic activity that's far more advanced far more liquid far more distributed than ever before.

When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus they're all about change.

It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope that means 86% is dependent on raw talent fickle business cycles the quality of the product you're selling and often pure dumb luck.