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

Always keep hope aliveAlways dream with trust.

The devil prince of this world, but this world don’t last so long for mortal man.

If you believe you can, you can make your dreams come true.

Public symbols matter. They are one of the ways we tell each other, and the world, what we honor.

All my days were written in Your book and planned before a single one of them began.Psalm 139:16

No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.

It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.

I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing about and their story.

Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.