Without animal research, polio would still be claiming thousands of lives each year.

A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf.

Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it.

The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys

Sometimes you meet people who teach you what kind of person you do not want to be in your life.

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape it would be the shape of a boomerang.

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

I want to have children, please God, with a woman that I love and that I'm very attracted to.

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

In our young days, when Modigliani and I first came to Paris, in 1906, nobody was very clear about ideas. But unconsciously, we knew quite a lot of things, of which we became aware later on.

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.

There are two conflicting philosophies that I love: "Everything happens for a reason," as well as "you can change everything that you have control over."