Either you run the day or the day runs you.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Never complain and never explain.
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.