If you want to change this world, this community that we all live in, then get up and do it. And just start something.

I need to solve the problem. It's no different from how am I going to get my son out the door when he needs to go to school. It's a bigger version of that same type of problem.

One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.

A solid foundation in genetics is increasingly important for everyone.

It is important to democratize personal genetics and make it more accessible.

There should be choice in healthcare.

FDA clearance is an important step on the path towards getting genetic information integrated with routine medical care.

It's just the reality. Everyone's going to die and everyone's going to get sick at some point. But I do believe that there are choices you can make in life that will make you as healthy as possible.

I think the U.S. is falling behind. There's massive government initiatives going around the world and you see that there's a real enthusiasm for genetics.

I guess I'm just fiercely independent.

Some genetic variants can be informative about ones risk for Parkinsons disease and Alzheimers disease.

At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The magic momentsgo unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.

The worst feelings are the warm, anxious burning that portends your heart breaking followed by the wave of numbness that asphyxiates your soul.

The world has been loaned to humanity by the universal powers of creation.

No one knows how to love anybody's trouble.

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

Yesternight the sun went hence, And yet is here today.

It's very typical that when two people are having lunch, they put a phone on the table between them.

I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get really soul-sucking.

There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.

A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet.