The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.

We have learned nothing from the genome.

Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.

Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.

Eons of suffering, brutality and struggle have paved the way through the corridors of time to create this moment, where you exist as an exalted expression of life.

I was born one thousand times and all the while it was you I met again to only meet again under the thousand stars that divide us and connect us.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.

I think a lot of women are underestimated.

If you live below your means, you can turn down stuff all the time.

I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.

I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.

Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.

Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries.