Find first peace within yourself. Don't eat too much. Keep your brain active. Love.

The body does whatever it wants. I am not my body; I am my mind.

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.

It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.

It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.