But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad.

The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'

Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.

Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.

Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way.

For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.

Lead your life with love and friendship

It is not the balance in your check book that makes life count. It is the investment one makes in the lives of others.

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie,' is as funny as it gets.

Basically, I just want to make movies and maybe even produce TV later down the line, do some writing, maybe a tour with my music. And start a family! That's really important to me.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

Information may inform the mind, but revelation sets a heart on fire.

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another.