We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.

You have no idea what you get involved in when you start a role. You just hope that it's going to be successful.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it’s great to be a part of and watch.

Be a storehouse of happy memories.

Start with something messy, get to the point, get an editor, and make it good.

"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads."

Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.