"We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves."

"Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb."

"If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'"

"Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms."

"Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure."

"Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal."

"Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it."

"I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up."