I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a Marshall scholar.

Some people call themselves fiscal conservatives; my wife says I'm just cheap.

I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.

The best music I have ever heard is the sound of my daughter’s giggling.

Why bother getting married, going through all the pomp and pageantry, if you didn't think it was going to last? It was far easier to live in sin and not have to deal with the paperwork.

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

I can't go back and change the hands of time but what I can do is create a new legacy.

I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.

Trust, practice, and then release yourself into the goodness of Existence and your life will prove that what you believe, you see.

We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.