An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.
Every once in a while, it seems like the cosmos part, and something great plops into your lap.
... even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.
You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.
Kevin Reeves...proving an ill wind blows nobody no good.
We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.
Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.
It's always the people who don't want things who get them.
Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it.
I got lost but look what I found.
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
I didn't think I would make this much money.
When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.
I was married once--in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad.
Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life.
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.
It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket.
Sometimes things are a blessing in disguise.
He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.
I was feeling a bit down, I went to a therapist a few times, at a hundred bucks a pop. But then I realized that no therapy session would ever cheer me up half as much as if I was just strolling along and found a hundred dollar bill.
