(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.

Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.

Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.

History should be studied but not worshipped.

It was my Uncle George who discovered alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward thing.

Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.

You can't have success without trust... especially in businesses that deal with the public.

Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.

I love my friends and my past, and it's made me who I am.

Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.