Are you willing to nourish your heart with love

Give people a chance.

Light is the magician of the cosmos.

Learn when to take step back .... At times it gives you a chance to know yourself better.

My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.

Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue

Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no science can exist.

Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.

But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts.

It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.