I always try to be reasonable and effective.

Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.

I always try to be reasonable and effective.

Every human being makes mistakes.

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.

Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.

As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.

I love trains. I don't even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but they're not.

You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you.

I'm one injury away from hanging up the racket at any time.

Black lives do matter, and our lives do hold value.

When you are really in love, you become vulnerable, and insecurities come out of nowhere.

We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us.

I have an awful lot of energy.

People are hungry for what's happening right now in the world.

We're now seeing email that people thought they had deleted showing up as evidence in court. You can't erase email. As that becomes more commonly realized, people will be a little wiser about what they type.

I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.

When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner—and how that winner might be me.

Whenever Washington makes a one-size-fits-all decision, it doesn't work in states all around the country.

If you love classical playwrights, seek out companies or places that are doing that. If you love modern playwrights, try to find groups who are writing new plays or working on new plays. If you love television, watch as much theater and film as you can.

Its self centered to think that human beings as limited as we are can describe divinity.

The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.

Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

When I was in the Maine Senate and proposed Maine RX - a plan to lower prescription drug costs by forcing the pharmaceutical companies to negotiate - I was told by many people that it was too big an idea, and we couldn't overcome opposition from the drug companies.

The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids.

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instead of my lesson, the piano player and I went into a studio... and we put down some demos... Those demos got to Quincy Jones through an agent... He listened to them, he called me, and we started to record.

Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.