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.

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.

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.

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

There are things known—things experienced, felt, and understood—that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice.

Meditation and mindfulness are tools for working with the mind, but where they have led me is to a blossoming of the heart...

The only loss is the love did not express.

I founded the American Red Cross.

Marco Rubio has got the number one worst attendance record, and they want him to be president, right?

What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film.

[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

Making music is so much more self-motivated. It's my own music. It's my own time. I don't have a team around me that's helped me make everything.

That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to themselves and then to an audience.

The Internet is a very powerful tool; unfortunately its starting to get a little saturated.