If we are honest with ourselves and listen quietly ... we all harbor one fiercely held aspiration for our healthcare - that it keep us healthy.

Questions [about our healthcare system] are not hard because the answers are complicated, they are hard because they require that we be honest with ourselves.

It's a simple solution. You change one thing, and suddenly you've changed everything.

At the end of the day, when we measure our healthcare, it will not be by the diseases cured, but by the diseases prevented.

Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.

In a statement to the Associated Press earlier in the year, Jamie Lynn said she didn’t have a boyfriend. She said, ‘I’m keeping my options open.’ And by options, she meant legs.

The winner of the Westminster Dog Show gets to drink champagne - out of the toilet.

I knew that the stronger that I was, the faster I was going to swim, and thats all I had in my mind at the time, was I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world.

The older Ive gotten, the more I try to stay out of the gym.

If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.

If you want to hurt me, fine. Take my books. Burn down my house. Shave my head while I am sleeping. But nobody, nobody screws with my dog.

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

The whole campfire idea freaked Piper out. It made her think of that huge purple bonfire in the dreams, and her father tied to a stake. What she got instead was almost as terrifying: a sing-along.