I've only had two rules. Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?

The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier. And as the calendar records the years, it becomes increasingly evident that the easy way rests hazardously upon shifting sands, whereas the hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.

My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.

Scientists are a bunch of romantics.