America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.

Jeremy P. Johnson

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

Sydney J. Harris

Better be alone than in bad company.

Thomas Fuller

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

Tom Hanks

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

Armistead Maupin

A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.

Maria Edgeworth

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Robert Burns

Make religion attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. Worthy of reverence because it really understands human nature. Attractive because it promises true good.

Blaise Pascal

I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane.

Mary Rose O'Reilley

I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.

Guy Forget

Knowledge is never too dear.

Francis Walsingham

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friendswent to the funeral in one car.

Steven Wright