We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food.

I travel a lot I hate having my life disrupted by routine.

Caskie Stinnett

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

Bobby Vinton

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Martin Luther

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

Arnold Edinborough

If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.

Dino De Laurentiis

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

Gail Porter

Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

Edgar Allan Poe

My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special he's still one of my favorite writers.

Andre Dubus III

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Lawrence D. Bell

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth

Eric Hoffer

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

Anais Nin