Chemical synthesis is uniquely positioned at the heart of chemistry, the central science, and its impact on our lives and society is all pervasive.

Life is simply too short to live it less perfectly than it could be lived.

I have never learned how to tell somebody something good about myself

No more hard work than look beautiful with eight in the morning until midnight.

I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.

If there are people who yearn for the days when Saddam Hussein was in power, then I am not among them.

In the trade pact you know that was recently agreed to, I said you have to talk about devaluation. Because that's been their [China] single greatest asset in terms of what they are doing to us.

There is no order of things except in the human mind.

I love to eat - Kit Kats or cookies-and-cream ice cream. I need sugar like five times a day.

A day will come when the nationalists will find themselves the only defenders of Islam. They will have to give a special meaning to it if they want the Arab nation to have a good reason for survival.

I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.