The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
You go into the Lions camp with preconceived ideas about players and teams and then find guys are actually very different, and the beauty of the Lions is that all those characters are moulded into it. I find that exciting.
Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.
None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
The Olympics meant everything to me. Going through them is like nothing else you will ever experience. For those few weeks, you are in another world. At that point, I couldn't see how there could ever be anything better.
Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.
I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
I love photography, I love food, and I love traveling, and to put those three things together would just be the ultimate dream.
There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
Most women file for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious medical problem, a job loss, or a family break up. It is hard to protect against those.
To General McChrystal, those men on his team are his family. You know, these guys, they would do anything. They would die for each other.
My family understands the pain of struggling with a loved one who's suffering from a blood-related cancer, and we seek to support those who are working to find a cure.
For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.
For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago.
I remember loving 'Braveheart,' and I still do! It was one of those films my family had on video and we watched over and over again.
