My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.

As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.

Evil is not good's absence but gravity'severlasting bedrock and its fatal chainsinert, violent, the suffrage of our days.

One either cares what others think about him, or cares what others think he thinks about them. If you want to find someone who doesn't care in the slightest what anyone thinks, try a lunatic asylum.

We all need each other.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.

I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

It's funny shooting movies because you get to see clubs during daylight hours, which no one should ever see - it's not pretty; there's a reason the lighting is dim in there.

Spring is the ultimate genius of the existence and the utter ladder of the lovers ascending to the infinity.