Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’ People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. Not to live for the day, that would be materialistic — but to treasure the day. I realize that most of us live on the skin, on the…
The first rule of holes: when you’re in one, stop digging. The thing is this: You got to have fun while you’re fightin’ for freedom, ’cause you don’t always win. It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in…
Your thorns are the best part of you. Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt. The cure for loneliness is solitude. Marianne was one of America’s foremost poets and often considered the poet’s poet’s poet’s poet. Her work is acutely observant and insightful. Read more about her here.
Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me. The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I’ve developed are rewards in themselves. People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was]…
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. How I Love Lucy was born? We…
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. It isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re going that counts. I’m very shy, and I shy away from people. But the moment I hit the stage, it’s…
I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble. Most successes are unhappy. That’s why they are successes – they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. It is really a…
