Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

Laurel Clark

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

James A. Michener

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. . .Failure always made me try harder next time.

Michael Jordan

A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.

Wilson Mizner

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

J. C. Macaulay

And the tree was happy

Shel Silverstein

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

Amy Klobuchar

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Clarence Darrow

You make your own dream. That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story. That's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself. That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be. There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

John Lennon

I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Thomas Hobbes

The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.

Galileo Galilei