Be a physical chemist, an analytical chemist, an organic chemist, if you will; but above all, be a chemist.

We would be glad to have your friend come here to study, but tell him that we teach Chemistry here and not Agricultural Chemistry, nor any other special kind of chemistry. ... We teach Chemistry.

Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name mentioned in the same breath with him.

The focus of the entrepreneur must always be on exchanging products or services for money, and anything that distracts from that like actually running a business, should be avoided where possible.

The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.

Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.

We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need.

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

There are times you will be given intuition, you just know something, and you can't explain it. Don't override it. Don't talk yourself out of it. That's the Creator giving you inside information.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

We are such stuff that dreams are made of.