Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Somehow the people who do as they please seem to get along just about as well as those who are always trying to please others.

Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait until you meet him at night.

You are only what you are when no one is looking.

It struck me what we should be trying to do was pluck the egg from the ovary and fertilise it in the laboratory. We could do this in animals increasingly... this was the way to go in the human species.

Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.