I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.

Knowledge that is not used is abused.

American Indian Proverb, Cree

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

Garrett Hardin

These are the people who will encourage you to go after your dreams and will inspire you to succeed. Stick to them like a barnacle to a rock.

Steve Backley

The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.

Italian Proverb

I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

Gunther Grass

Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.

Fanny Crosby

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept

William Shakespeare

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

Cassandra Clare

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.

Steve Jobs

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

Norman Cousins

Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

Maurice Blanchot