I eat some fruit every day, but not too much and almost no processed food. I stay away from sweets, except 80 per cent chocolate.

It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.

The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.

You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't, you need a gene to be active for it.

Life's too short to not be around nice people.

In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.

Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan.

I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.

Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

Maybe one day we will be able to take a pill that keeps us young and healthy much longer. I believe in my heart that this will happen.

You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be.

The underprivileged are byproduct of society’s material progress.

God’s Word is not a book of human ideas . . . it is given to us by [God] to teach us how to live.

Ire, like an atom bomb, could clear the field but came with consequence.

We must always strive to reflect the highest vision of ourselves.

Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.

Men who have a thirty-six-tele vised-football- games-a- week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.

What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.

Say what you want, I still think Dracula One and Dracula Two are creep-tacular.