As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
Everyting starts to happen at my home at 7 A. M., 7:20, when you hear the orange juicer. That means my daughters are already making the fresh Clementine juice.
Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.
On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.
I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.
Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.
Part of my humor is the fact that I love coming out of left field. I don't want people to expect what is going to happen next.
History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
Social change doesn't happen in the Arab region through dramatic confrontation, beating, or indeed, baring of breasts, but rather through negotiation.
Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.
A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.
The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.
For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it.
Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.
Love is such that God grants us one person who we can spend the rest of our life with. It rarely happens that we don't.
We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.
I learned that if we embrace what's happening, we are also embracing what is possible - and a road opens up for God to meet us halfway.
I always wanted to be on a great TV show and in a Broadway show and have a CD out, and the fact that they happened simultaneously is kind of an embarrassment of riches.
