If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future.

States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

I understand that I have become a liability to the very institutions and policies to which I have dedicated my career and, indeed, my entire adult life.

I don't want to suggest that controlling pharmaceutical costs is the answer to what ails the U.S. health care system. It isn't.

Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS

Talent is a process, not a thing. Failure is not proof of an innate limit but rather is an indication of a skill we haven’t yet developed.

Cutting is not stupid. Stupid is being bad to someone and get them to the point of bleeding

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

There's no evidence that says that the money a federation has translates into success. I hope that that will change.

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

Life is the inside of a box, and we can't open it.

If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago.