I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.

The past is certain, the future obscure.

All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.

We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.

Home is where my habits have a habitat

Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature.

There is extraordinary chemistry that exists in long-term relationships

It is time we recognized that the real terrorism is poverty.

When you're shooting a movie that's not necessarily a huge budget, you have to think about what you can leave out and still make it interesting.

The new Kenyans. There are always new Kenyans.

Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what for?

You want to see the people you've sort of come to know and love, or love to hate, you want to see them develop in some way. And I hope people get sort of caught up in that arc.

The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous.