People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should do to address these problems.

The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.

There is no health without mental health.

The challenge is to become part of the struggle, to make a positive difference.

I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

The people of this country desperately need to engage in an open and honest debate about mental health.

We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment.

Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak.

Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.

Just change your attitude and perception to change your life.

Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.

Creating art or something beautiful makes you a more fulfilled person than they can ever be because they're caught up in what they hate rather than what they love.

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

Every company is its own TV station, magazine, and newspaper.

And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile.