The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.

I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.

When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

You ought to forgive others. Sometimes, the dark deed of others is due to inner struggles and fears. With your shining light and kind deeds, you will help them to turn to the light.

Remember, nothing happens before it’s supposed to, so trust that, as you are striving for authenticity and personal excellence, the recognition of your life’s purpose is nearing closer.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

We mustn't be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot; we must wait to be guided.

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

The happiness you are seeking is not to be found in the flow of life, but in your attitude toward whatever life brings.

We are not born to survive. Only to live.