There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health care should be shared and so on. That's fair enough.

The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of soul.

Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.

The ACA is an ugly patch on an ugly system - and I don't think it's worth mentioning in the context of price or quality transparency.

The rich are becoming richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger.

We are the only nation where paper is still the mainstay in the private insurance industry.

You save me every single day. You are the one thing that makes me happy. You are the only thing I need.

I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

Today, only about 1% of the World Wide Web is written in Arabic.

You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.

A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!