Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)

One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me.

Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

Coolness is not an image that can be bought or worn. True cool is an attitude that is projected from a person who is extremely comfortable in their own skin.

Grass is always greener on your side, just switch places with your neighbor.

The best things that happen I'd never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather.

Bad art is always basically creepy

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

My greatest influence has been the blues. And that's a literary influence, because I think the blues is the best literature that we as black Americans have.

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.

I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.

Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.