I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.
Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.
I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code.
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
Nobody will ever tell you who praised you but everybody would want to be the first to tell you who criticized you.
Some people in your life Touch you so very deeply That you drown totally in that depth.
Treacherous people do not last only memories of their treason last. So will it last with emotions mixed, of love and hate for treacherous ones.
A procrastinators willpower lies in the fact that he keeps work pending because he strongly feels he wants to do the same – keep it pending.
If today you don't have time for those who gave all their time for you yesterday then tomorrow they will not have time to give to you who has no time today
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV.
A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this--not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences of the Holy Spirit.
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." ( , New York Times, February 22, 1987)
Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.
Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror.
Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.
