You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers.

Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

I suspect I'm the only politician in America who won an election in this last cycle with TV ads saying I was going to try to pass the first single-payer system in America.

Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege.

Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it.

Per aspera ad astra, Papa, ' I whispered. Through hardship to the stars.

We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.

I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story.

In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.

Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.

The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.

Energy is not only the basis of our existence, it is the fuel that makes everything in our lives real and possible.