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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

My wife is a brilliant, hugely understanding person.

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her. She obviously knows me incredibly well and what I'm going through. I don't know that I've been as helpful to her as she has been to me.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

It once amused me that it took me three tries to pass my driver's test and that my driving instructor told my mother that I was the least talented person behind the wheel that she had ever taught.

And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.

Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.