The more you start prohibiting donors, the more you are going to have less blood in the supply. It's still not clear you can get it from blood transfusions.

Bodies aren't the same as Coca-Cola cans.

Do good in the name of children. Do good in the name of public health.

The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics.

A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA.

If you're a square peg in a society full of round holes, it's time to change the playing board.

Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever.

After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.

The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens outside the brain.

To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

I was involved in some peaceful protests.