What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?

The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

Bo Bennett

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

Alexander McCall Smith

One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.

William Hazlitt

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Edward Hoagland

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

Barry Gibb

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

Albert Einstein

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

Martin Heidegger

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

Henry Moore

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Chinese Proverb

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

Jodi Picoult

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

Chloe Sevigny