What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.

There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives, because in both cases we are giving people the chance of more life.

It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun.

[Anti-aging therapies will] never be perfect, but we'll be able to fix the things that 200-year-olds die of before we have any 200-year-olds, and the same for 300 and 400 and so on.

The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.

If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.

If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.

Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.

Don't try to fix the past, try to build the future.

Kell managed an echo of her smile, and [Lila] gasped. "What's that on your face?"The smile vanished. "What?""Never mind, " she said, laughing. "It's gone.

I don't see that as being good for America - that the country pits parents against everybody else.

By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.

Kids, they are always hurting themselves. It's like, "Quick, get me to casualty quick!" while your doing something important like sitting down picking your ear.

Christ entered our world. As a result, we can enter His.

Failure is just a tax on the way to success. It is inevitable but it is not the whole story.

What you think of me is none of my business. What is most important is what I think of myself.

I am stronger than I thought I was. My favorite phrase has been 'This too shall pass.' I now understand it really well.

It's natural. I freestyle, meaning that I just rap. I might put words on paper, but I just put a beat on my rap, and go off the top of my head. It's something I've been able to do for a long time.