My mom has a very subtle way of encouraging.

The Pew Biomedical Scholars are a synergistic community whose connections are reinforced over the years.

Greatest discoveries come from passionate scientists with naive curiosity

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.

We try to befit after we fall, we outsmart after we are fooled, we overcome after we are dropped, we go the extremes only after we experience the extremes.

Write until your idea becomes reality.

Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.

I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials.