I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.

Maddie swallowed hard and tried to channel… which actress? Damn, she couldn’t think of anactress to save her life! She was on her own.

my soul has shadows – nooks and crannies where griefs, like cobwebs, collect

I used to collect Persian rugs and real estate - you should be able to walk on and live in your money. I had to give up the rugs because I'm allergic to mould.

The two most important things to athletes, playing time and money.

The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on.

The breath is seen to be the key between the emotional state, the mental state and physical state. It is perhaps the most important tool, and it's one whose importance is underestimated in the West.

This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.

Do not say, ‘You are bad’; say only, ‘You are good’, but be better!