What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

History repeats, but science reverberates.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.

Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.

One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.

She ached: oh, how she ached. Her soul was like one big bruise.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Those who preach god, need god Those who preach peace do not have peace Those who preach love do not have love

Do you ever have one of those weeks where you know nothings gonna go right?

Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.

I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

Fortunately, where reason failed, blind panic served well enough.

Either is both, and Both is neither.

Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken.