In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace

Empathy was written from many male and female points of view because each character reacts differently to the emotional fallout from one binding circumstance

I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.

The art of love is to embrace the world and that which lies beyond it.

Skin diseases are something doctors like, the patient neither dies nor gets well.

Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit.

Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.

I am young, but I have been through a lot.

Let's respect women for the value - let's respect everyone, men and women, for the value they bring to the workplace.

You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really be more powerful with it. You can express it a lot more powerfully.

The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.