Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.

I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.

We have learned nothing from the genome.

Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.

Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

How you act on the worst time is make you the wise man of best time.

Whatever hurt you felt is not an excuse to inflict the same on others.

Self-Worth. Self-Love. Self-Esteem. Self-Motivation. Self-Confidence. All of these things equal Self-Empowerment. Always believe in yourself, even if nobody else does!

The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is.

I'm the only one who still believes in Santa Claus!

Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.

Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

My detention has been worth every second if only to prove my innocence to those who truly matter most my countrymen.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow!