The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
You never know what motivates you.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.