My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding. My wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group grew rapidly.

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Let your children uplift your burdens and allow your role as a mother - to flourish and grow.

It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers. But there were cats.

My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics.

Regular meditation not only restores our inner harmony and vital energy, but provides us with an actual experience of the peace we seek.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.

I always wanted to be a shortstop so I could play more often!

As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it'll stop breaking it.