I was born February 20, 1937 in Munchen as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber.

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems.

I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976.

Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea.

This is the greatest paradox: the emotions cannot be trusted; yet it is the emotions that tell us the greatest truths.

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

Happiness is the object and design of our existence.

The biggest losers are those who care only about winning.

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

I've always been called a professional opportunist, and in the future I'm open to anything. We've spent a lot of time offshore, looking at opportunities in real estate outside the United States.

Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.