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

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.

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

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.

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.

What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.

The basic Irrational Act which is renewed every moment of life, is not to commit suicide.

A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.

My theory: if the malls don't open until ten what's the point of being up earlier than that?

To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.

Every once in a while you ought to kiss a young lady. And every once in a while you ought to kiss a young lady for a while.

I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this.

The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.

I just wanna do my music.