My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.

Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of model systems and the pursuit of fundamental biological principles.

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.

In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.

I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.

Just worry about things you can do something about. The rest wil take care of itself

I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.

Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery.

Faith does not change my circumstances; faith changes me. Faith may not bring in the tuition check when I need it, but faith will give me what it takes to hang on.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.

My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.

I hate to say that my mother was 'just a housewife', because in addition to that she has had lots of part-time secretarial jobs in factories and hospitals, always working really hard for our family.

France is an old country that needs to wake up.

There are good and bad movies, and long ones, and pretentious ones, and fun ones, and it's kind of healthy not just being able to switch off after ten minutes, but have patience.