Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.

Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.

Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.

The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

Genius is independent of situation.

Optimism is a belief and I adapt belief as a way of life.

When we think we can manage our time, our circumstances, and our relationships without His help and inspiration, we know what unmanageability is.

It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother's milk.

He (Jesus) became what we are that He might make us what He is.

I won't live to see the death-with-dignity movement reach critical mass, but I call on you to carry it forward.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.

The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".

Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.