After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of life on the surface of the earth and everything that has been a plant and an animal will be destroyed and transformed into a gaseous, volatile and mineral substance.

Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.

The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it.

My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.

In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.

There is a time in every man's life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered.