For scientific researchers, charitable donations are enormous engines of new opportunities.

If you just focus on the smallest details, you will never get the big picture right.

Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.

I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.

The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.

Life is a process of evolution and anyone who thinks the current world order is OK does not get what evolution is all about.

My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.

In the end, what counts is what you do.

Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

The major thing is to view biology as an information science.

Never stop learning, when you stop learning, life stops.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a ritual of celebration.

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.

Mama is funny. She has a great sense of humor and loves a good joke. Loves a practical joke, too.