People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, Its so big, I cant make a difference. I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.

I have a particular passion and focus on Alzheimer's and diseases of dementia. There's just so much scientifically that we don't know, and we can know.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

Me? With only one woman forever and ever, blah, blah, blah. I don't think so, brother. I am having too much fun with all the ladies in Johobin."-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance (Breccan)

The difference between landscape and landscape is small but there's a great difference in the beholders.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

I was always a sensitive, sweet kid, but I got brutalized and I became brutal. And frankly, I don't think it was my natural makeup. I don't think its anyone's natural makeup to be a violent brawler.

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

The secret to success is written on the doors of this auditorium. One side says 'Push,' the other side says 'Pull.

My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock...whatever you want to call it is OK with me.