The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.

My crystal ball or intuition tells me that in the '80s the impact of RIA [radioimmunoassay] on the study of infectious diseases may prove as revolutionary as its impact on endocrinology in the 60s.

We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.

The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.

New truths become evident when new tools become available.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

We must believe in ourselves or no one will believe in us.

In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

As long as you're learning you're not old.

Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.

Children, who once looked to their parents for leadership, now turn to their teachers for knowledge, their peers for wisdom, and their music and televisions for entertainment.

The movers & shakers of the world are not imbued with special powers. Once you realize that, you too can attain your rightful mantle.

I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.David

On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.

I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops.

Nature with her wonders blinds and binds one still. There is no escape. I love her utterly through all time and times. All over the world towns to me are prison; green fields are home.

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.

There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country: There should be no new tax collection without an election.

We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.