The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.

We're the real estate industry - not the manufacturers.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.

I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.

More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.

I am choosing to flow with the current of life rather than lying in a tide pool experiencing the same things again and again.

Never step back because you feel you cant, Give it the try hence emotions get tamed!break the comfort zone and be the unbreakable zone.

Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that’s opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet.

Everyone is on a journey at any given moment in their lives

What people actually refer to as research nowadays is really just Googling.

There are some people who fall in love over and over.

I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.

I'm thinking wanting to succeed is something in my DNA; I'm not like 'I've got to succeed,' I just don't think about that... I see a silver lining in everything and I see a lesson in everything.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that seeds must be in the hands of farmers.