African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved.

Reggie Miller

I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.

Cassandra Clare

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.

Alan Autry

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

Margaret Thatcher

That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do.

Jorge Garcia

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

George Bernard Shaw

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

David Cameron

Travel is a fools paradise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

Scott Weiland

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

Kim Weston