Even amongst fierce flames/ The golden lotus can be planted.

Distraction is reading written word and when I seek to make distraction I write the words I wish to be enveloped in.

Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.

My dear: in this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.

I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids.

The Federal role in overcoming barriers to needed health care should emphasize health care financing programs-such as Medicare and Medicaid.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

I would rather sail and hit a rock than sit and rot in dry dock.

My mother always said to me, 'Right makes might.' At last, I can believe her.