At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.

I was particularly good at math and science.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires.

My family gave me the best in education.

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.

I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.

At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product and it cleared up in two days. She lived to 17 years.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.

In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe.

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.

Get well soon my dear your the only one in my life may Lord be with you for the quick recovery.

Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.

The Kitchen's mission is to strengthen communities by bringing local, real food to everyone.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.

For me, announcing wasn't the ideal working condition.

Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.

In politics, victory is never total.

I want parents out there to know that it's totally natural for kids to make believe and play games. It does not mean your child is going to be transgendered. And even if it were true, why is it such a horrible thing?

Running like a bunny with his tail on fire.

To show that you truly care, you listen.

I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.

I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.

When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me to join them at their table. They were fascinated that I'd watched their programme on existentialism back home and wanted to understand nothingness and being.

I'm a massive shopper. Topshop, Urban Outfitters - I'm pretty at home on the high street.

I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will!

I was a huge Spice Girls fan when I was a kid. When I was younger I had a Spice Girls poster on my wall and I watched the movie.

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

Once you've made your first feature, you know what you can do wrong and how hard it is to shoot a feature. Before you do it, you just don't know how hard it is. Once you've done it, when you're writing a second one, it's almost like you're preparing, and it's almost holding you back.

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.