I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.

My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.

I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.

If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.

You recognize God when you begin to recognize people

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.

What the hell difference does it make left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

I don't believe in bad. I believe in relativity. The only way we can know what we call good is if there's also something we call bad.

There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.

Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.

I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into.

I hate gold. It does not pay a dividend, it has no value, and you can't work out what it should or shouldn't be worth," he said. "It is the last refuge of the desperate.

[The blues] is the antidote for sadness and depression.