The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.

It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.

We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can't be too big of a surprise.

We live in an anaesthetized society.

George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.

The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh which cant be too big of a surprise.

I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.

The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness.

Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.