When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy

Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy

The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away

I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area

A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos

Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

Discipline is a given

Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.

I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me. I don’t know how to be without you.

I read somewhere, how important it is in life, to not necessarily be strong. But to feel strong.

When you look ahead and darkness is all you see, faith and determination will pull you through.

[If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than you could say Ayn Rand.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

In life, we choose whether or not we want to be a winner or a loser.

Gratitude helps us love well by keeping us focused on the beauty in our relationship and the person we love.

I’ve never really socialized, I’ve always been anti-social and preferred to be at home. I was never, even my late teens and early twenties, into clubs and parties and stuff like that.