“I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”

The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world's first…