When they hear from you, it counts. That's how we're going to win.

People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening.

It's important right now to continue to have your patients contact their senators and their congresspeople to say we have a problem. We want you to help solve it, we want you to be involved.

There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it.

When they hear from you, it counts. That's how we're going to win.

You've had some terrific print information that gets everybody's attention in this town.

If at the end of May we don't, we'll reform, regroup, decide how we're going to go about it, but if the task force can't come up with the bill, I'm going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we've been working on now for a year or two and just go for it.

Average Americans are going to win this, not me. And not just your organization, not just the providers of health care, but the American people are going to cause this to happen. But they have to keep sending those cards and letters.

What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country.

We represent people, and any good congressperson wants to know how their people at home feel about issues. I can tell you for sure in our office that is taken into account, and that is true for any congresspersons I know.

Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force.

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg.

We all have a social responsibility and have to be mindful of what we do and say.

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

I was married for five years, and I definitely had that baby fever, which I think you should.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.

I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.

There's no doubt in my mind that 'Slam' is going to be huge. It's a film about the power of language. People are going to see this and get blown away.

I don't like people around me sad. I like making people happy.

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

People dont think of cello as a rock instrument really and we want people to know all the possibilities that the cello can offer.

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.

I have made lots of mistakes on and off the pitch, and you can only learn from them. If I can get that across, then hopefully I am doing something right.

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.

Academy Awards don't really solve anything.

I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.