This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.

Man's health and well-being depends upon, among many things, the proper functioning of the myriad proteins that participate in the intricate synergisms of living systems.

In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed

Shit happens. But so does magic." ~ Celia Wird, SEALED WITH A CURSE: A Weird Girls Novel

I plan on ... encouraging so many women who are out there, who are still in the thick of it, who have yet to fight this fight, that you can do it, you can get through this one step at a time.

We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.

Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.

Me and my girl split the buffet at KFC.

There are always people doing things wrong who need to be taught, for their own good. That's doable.

They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.

I used fashion to express myself as much as I could. But at some point, it was not enough.