Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.

According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nations history.

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids decision not to drink alcohol.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.

As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.

Don’t pray for the sake of prayer, pray only because you want to be God

Maybe you're holding on too tight, and the magic comes in letting go.

But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.

Shoes are a big part of your look. I think that if your outfit isn't really something special, then fun footwear is a great way to jazz it up and make your ensemble more interesting.

After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge ... This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression.

Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are.

Usually, the subject matter of the image is not the subject of the work.