"The evidence is truly overwhelming that disease is pluri-causal."

“Once you get your education it's going to open up so many doors for you. And the sky's the limit. So that's what I want to deliver to students.”

Source : "The Secrets To Jerry Rice’s Hall Of Fame Football Career Can Be Found In Crawford, Mississippi". Interview with Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

“When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.”

“I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.”

“The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.”

Source : "The Economist" Interview, www.economist.com. March 31, 2010.

“There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.”

“If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private school . . . At the next session you may ban books and newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men.”

“The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.”

“In fact, the legal system is in part responsible for their very size and growth. And too often when the individual finds himself in conflict with these forces, the legal system sides with the giant institution, not the small businessman or private citizen.”