I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.

I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.

Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.

The two stared together into a future that held as much pain as promise, as much sorrow as sunshine...

Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.

Glenn must think he's still in space. He's orbiting the issues faster than he orbited earth.

To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.

Always do what you like, do what you want, and try your best to be happy.

To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.

It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.

I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner.