There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages.

Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.

One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.