I have always regarded the forward edge of the battlefield as the most exclusive club in the world

When your people are lying dead around you, don't come crying to me...

There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.

Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.

The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.

I'll take a nice assist any day over points.

While we won't be able to help the 10,000 people who died in last year's [Ebola] outbreak, we can do something to save untold numbers of lives in the future if NIH is working at full strength.

You can gauge the limitations of a person's life by the size of the problems that get him or her down. You can measure the impact a person's life has by the size of the problems he or she solves.

Everybody's word is worth Nobody's taking.