I dont often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage.

Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.

There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives, because in both cases we are giving people the chance of more life.

It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun.

[Anti-aging therapies will] never be perfect, but we'll be able to fix the things that 200-year-olds die of before we have any 200-year-olds, and the same for 300 and 400 and so on.

The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.

If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.

If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.

What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

Self-confidence and self-will are the strength for a sacred accomplishments.

There is no brutality and cruelty in battles and wars

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.

Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.

It is the special province of music to move the heart.

Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!

The reason while we are in danger in this universe is this: We need the universe but the universe does not need us!

I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.

I think nerdy stuff is sexy. I like to watch the History Channel and learn about the universe, quantum physics and stuff like that.