To do suc cessful research, you don't need to know everything, you just, need to know one thing that isn't known.

Dead is when the chemists take over the subject.

The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is

Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.

Anything will lase if you hit it hard enough.

True love does not hurt. It's our imitation of it that does.

It can be scary to be everywhere else for a long time. I always feel that I'm safe at home, near my family.

People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.

It is your holy work, to deeply love, honor and respect the precious self that you are, the soul that only you hold.

It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.

Great art can only be created out of love.

When we love, it is the heart that judges.

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.