I don’t know how to explain it, but I feel like I was born to do this.

Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.

We can't just do things the way they've always been done; progress demands change.

你必须把失败看作开始和中间，但绝不要把它当作终点。

The poem is a way of holding on to what otherwise would be lost.

The goal of synthesis should be to make molecules as easily as possible, not just possible.

All suffering originates from craving， from attachment， from desire.