I think it is absolutely crazy in this day and age that I have to go through a trial and error method to see if my child is allergic to an antibiotic or peanuts. I should just know.

I need to solve the problem. It's no different from how am I going to get my son out the door when he needs to go to school. It's a bigger version of that same type of problem.

One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.

If you want to change this world, this community that we all live in, then get up and do it. And just start something.

A solid foundation in genetics is increasingly important for everyone.

It is important to democratize personal genetics and make it more accessible.

There should be choice in healthcare.

FDA clearance is an important step on the path towards getting genetic information integrated with routine medical care.

It's just the reality. Everyone's going to die and everyone's going to get sick at some point. But I do believe that there are choices you can make in life that will make you as healthy as possible.

I think the U.S. is falling behind. There's massive government initiatives going around the world and you see that there's a real enthusiasm for genetics.

I guess I'm just fiercely independent.

I find it a challenge to respect capable people who care only for their own interests.

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there".

The atmospheric intensity of two electric lovers is the most righteous place I need to rediscover.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.

I like to sing love songs.

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

It may be true that every necessary war must also really be a just war; but it does not absolutely follow that every just war is a necessary war.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Sir! Men who desert their comrades in war deserve to be shot! And Officers who intrude for them deserve to be hung!