I have to talk like this! It's my job

The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.

I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.

No one nor anything can silence me.

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt, Ir, Os) or which increase regularly (eg. K, Ru, Cs).

If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by the law of periodicity.

Don’t try to control yourself, just learn to monitor your thoughts.

In any power game, it seems, the dominant party is the least likely to be aware of what is going on.

I never rehearse scenes with the whole ensemble, because I need to preserve some surprise. Instead, I work with the cast individually on their characters.

AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.

Brain damage and stupidity are very different things, but can have similar effects on the wearer.

I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much.

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

All people go to Allah after their death, but the happy person is the one who goes to Allah while still alive.

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.