The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Jean de la Bruyere

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

All men are born equally free.

Salmon P. Chase

Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it,Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee,Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it,Not to partake thy passion, my humility.

Emily Dickinson, Complete Poems

Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.

Bill Kreutzmann

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples even though some of them still look down on me.

Saint Patrick

When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?

William C. Bagley, Craftmanship

The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.

Leland Stanford

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein