Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Albert Einstein

If you wish to be loved; Love!

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

Peter Agre

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

Margaret Atwood

Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions.

Simon Mainwaring

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

Mae West

The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.

Blake Lively

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

Gianni Versace

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.

Red Barber

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.

Paulo Coelho