I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.

Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.

I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.

Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white lab coats on chemists, they all look alike!

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.

Every year is a year of impact, a month of change and a day of new encounters. Its all in the mind to make the impact, see the change and conquer new encounters.

Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.

Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.

At times our children may not be in possession of a good spirit; but if the parent continues to possess the good Spirit, the children will have the bad spirit but a short time.

You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present.

Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics.

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.

As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

Anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything.

On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction, for compassion and hate, for generosity and greed.