At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.

Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home.

Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.

All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.

For many people with HIV, finding the right doctor is the most important decision they'll make.

Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.

Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care providers.

Those of us who lived through the worst of the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s have a very special spot in our heart for home-based health care.

Naming enables the noble-minded to speak, and speech enables the noble-minded to act. Therefore, the noble-minded are anything but careless in speech.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.

Mandelstam - his gift and the untamable nature of it - was like a thorn in Stalin's brain.

We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.

No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Well, first of all, I'm worth every penny.

Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain.