"It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world."

“A prison becomes a home when you have the key.”

“I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.”

“The ethos and critique are of poetry, which becomes a rich dark with a phosphorescence of lyric as witness.”

“Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.”

“Being successful doesn’t necessarily make you great. What makes you great is when you reach back and help somebody else become great.”

“I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.”

Source : Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

“You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.”

“The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on what the well knows to be his last day, in the pass of Thermopylae, is not to be contemplated without admiration.”