We would be glad to have your friend come here to study, but tell him that we teach Chemistry here and not Agricultural Chemistry, nor any other special kind of chemistry. ... We teach Chemistry.

Be a physical chemist, an analytical chemist, an organic chemist, if you will; but above all, be a chemist.

Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name mentioned in the same breath with him.

Before you find the magic of life you have to open yourself up to the possibility of it being there.

I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real.

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring

A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.

Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth

I went straight out of high school, and when I was 17, all I wanted to do was play guitar.

President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.

I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead of the United States.

Outer achievements should be expressions of inner abundance, not compensation for inner poverty.

It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic.