My best advice for someone considering adopting a pet is to take the time to really consider your lifestyle, home environment and personal preferences.

I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed.

I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that.

When you find what you love, you do it. That's it.

What I really want out of life is to discover something new, something mankind didn’t know was possible to do.

I think people can benefit tremendously from really asking why they're doing certain things.

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.

Fundamentally, the answers to our challenges in healthcare relies in engaging and empowering the individual.

I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering.

Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue.

What we're about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it's a civil right.

As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.

Nothing is whole, not for too damned long. The world is half night.

It is not the pain from the present that is killing you, but all your repressed feelings from the past that adds weight to it.

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.

I always say that you know when an Italian plane has landed at an airport because the men look uber-stylish, they’ve got scarves on and suits.

Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

Im lucky that its about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I dont know what I would have done.

Love bade me welcome, but my soul drew back.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

I think anybody who has been in Washington for almost 40 years has been there too long.