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

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.

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

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.

Organizing a coup was not the same as wanting one.

The law says do good be right. Grace says Jesus made you right so now you are good.

I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing.

Funny how a wife can spot a blonde hair at twenty yards, yet miss the garage doors.

Mathematics is not a spectator sport!

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.

he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams.

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

In every position that I've been in, there have been naysayers who don't believe I'm qualified or who don't believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.