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 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.

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.

Some genetic variants can be informative about ones risk for Parkinsons disease and Alzheimers disease.

One cannot make bargains for blissesOr catch them like fishes in netsAnd sometimes the things that life misses Help more than the things that it gets.

You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

I find it tragic that I must experience almost daily that cancer patients spend more time thinking about how many, and which, tablets they should take instead of dealing with personal changes.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

I've never been - I don't think I'm, like, a great A&R, by any means. I don't even know production lingo, in all honesty.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.

I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty.

In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.