"Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable."

"I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves."

"I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy."

"I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way."

"Writing is hard work and bad for the health."

"I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here."

"I try to be known more for my work than for anything else."

"Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand."