I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance program because there isn't enough support from Washington.

At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.

This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is hurting us and costing us jobs.

Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels.

Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light.

First they will laugh... after that they will either deny or follow you.

Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are.

Nirvana is not really a physical place, although sometimes I talk about it as if it were. It is not really an experience, although sometimes I mention it as if it was.

When you're busy doing your own stuff it's like running a race. You try not to look over your shoulder to see who else is in the race, you do the best you can.

The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.

Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.

I think guitar is the best thing in the world.