“Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.”

I’m basically a dinosaur. I don’t use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

We could be the biggest pantyhose seller in America, but we don’t want to weaken the link in shoppers’ minds between Home Depot and do-it-yourself projects.

When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.

As a businessman, you have to trust people. To find two people who lied the way [Vick and Petrino] lied, that’s unique and that’s not Arthur’s fault. It’s not a flaw of Arthur’s. It’s a flaw of these two guys.

People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That’s utter nonsense.

I’m very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.

Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.

In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising.

Over the past 20 years the drug companies, with their enormous wealth, have taken medicine over and now control its research, what is taught and the information released to the public

We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.

At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.

We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.