Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan.

It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.

The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.

You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't, you need a gene to be active for it.

Life's too short to not be around nice people.

I eat some fruit every day, but not too much and almost no processed food. I stay away from sweets, except 80 per cent chocolate.

In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.

I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.

Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

Maybe one day we will be able to take a pill that keeps us young and healthy much longer. I believe in my heart that this will happen.

You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be.

You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable.

Stand strong. Stand firm. Stand tall like tower.

Always be prepared. Preparation with the anointing of the Holy Spirit secures success. Not being prepared and not having the anointing of the Holy Spirit, spells utter disaster

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

The road may bend out of sight at times, but I know what lies ahead: the faraway horses.

We live in a world where everybody's supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.

I keep thinking they’re gonna call me. I keep thinking they’re gonna crunch the numbers and think, oh, we can make money with this! And they don’t.

Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.

I wear glasses myself. As an affectation, as a badge of high intellect and to see with.