Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.

A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.

Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.

The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.

The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.

Life is a wondrous phenomenon.

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

...I pluck every day from my sweater or chair, red hairs...strands of significance, traces of you in my life ...

There are things that defy logic. Things that speak to the instinctual fear cloaked by our conscious minds.

A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.

Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

I go into meetings, and people have this preconceived notion of me that I didn't work hard to get where I am.

I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!'

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

When you're writing you're affected by everything that's going on around you.

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.