I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.

We're the real estate industry - not the manufacturers.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.

More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.

In the morning, celebrate the beauty and warmth of sun light, in the evening, celebrate the song of silence and love of night.

It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.

I remember how beautiful it was to fall asleep on your couch and cry in front of you for the first time. You were the best platform from which to jump beyond myself. What was wrong with me?

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point.

If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]

What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.

I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.

Want to Think Big? Then get rid of the negative influences in your life. Harsh? Possibly. Healthy? Yes.

In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that's utopia.