Who seeks shall find.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you think you can do it, you can.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
I can, therefore I am.
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.