Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and geologists, he seemed to taunt, and you’ll find them.

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.

If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants.

Iron is the final peal of a star’s natural life.

Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.

Germans at the time believed, a little oddly, that dyes killed germs by turning the germs’ vital organs the wrong color.

As in twitter if you follow happiness... Happiness will follow you back

Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore.

How we speak to our children and the words we use can encourage and uplift them and strengthen their faith.

What I think a lot of that was K-1 having had their Grand Prix finals not even a month before the "Dynamite!!" show so a lot of those guys were coming into that fight pressured to fight.

Persistence goes a lot farther than brains.

I have to reign myself in a lot.