Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

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.

Never chase people. Be you and the right people who belong in your life and deserve a place in your heart will come, find and appreciate you!

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.

One day you men will learnto pay attention and all the world willtremble.

I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music

What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

My father was a director, and he used to always tell me, "You should be an actress." When I was 17, he gave me a job so that I'd be in the union.

I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators.

If something scares you, you run toward it, not away from it.