Hepatitis C was a devastating disease but because fundamental research was done in hepatitis C, it is now curable. It is now absolutely curable with new medications. So this is transformative.

Once you close down your laboratory, you can't just rev it up again if you're able to finally get a grant.

Cancer can no longer be classified according to the organ in which it arises. It has to be characterized in terms of the genetic mutation that exists.

I like to think of making cancer a chronic disease rather than focus just on curing cancer.

The key to HIV/AIDS was to say let's give a patient multiple different therapies at the same time and that makes the virus much less likely to mutate.

Precision medicine is one way to attack cancer and it's proven to be very effective but, remember that like HIV/AIDS, you're going to need combination therapies.

The biggest risk factor for cancer is aging.

If you have a pap smear every year, there's no reason to develop cervical cancer.

Life is not just to run and run, it is also not just to have fun. Life is complete when we get something worthwhile done.

Kindness has no religion – no boundaries. It is the trust of the soul.

Zombies weren't the true plague of the world, laziness was.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.

I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing.

I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from.

Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.

What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.