“We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.”

We fundamentally believe the first chapter of the Internet is over.

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.

Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists.

An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.

I have always felt very fortunate to be have good people. You know, talent will carry you for so far but the values of the people around that should make the difference.

There is a world of difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it.

One of the primary differences for me between fiction and poetry is that fiction uses every sort of tool that poetry does but hides it much, much more. Fiction doesn’t necessarily reveal what it’s doing with rhythm and sound and patterning.

Attitude is the difference between ordeal and adventure

There is no age barrier when it comes to Christlike service. … As we look beyond our differences in age, culture, and circumstance to nurture and serve one another, we will be filled with the pure love of Christ and the inspiration which leads us to know when and whom to serve.

A lot of us don’t get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.

As we form our individual opinions of our fellow man, let us base them on our similarities and not our differences.