Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

The best vision is insight.

Presence is more than just being there.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

Exciting happiness is joy, celebration, travelling, being in bed with a woman you desire.

Good evening, children, ' Said Nurse Matilda, and she gave a loud thump on the floor with her big black stick. 'I am Nurse Matilda.

Sometimes you need to fight your demons yet, sometimes you just need to embrace them.

Attitude determines the altitude of life.

Those who die for their country are martyrs and those who live for their country are greater martyrs.

When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

Is it just me, or does every woman in New York have a severe emotional problem?

I've found myself getting more and more cynical about what's happening to the planet - it makes me furious.

I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists.

When I was a lot younger, my parents raised me watching classic movies.