“If poor people are spending their own money, it is amazing how fast they will figure out how to keep a lid on medical bills.”

“Quality health care services must be accessible and affordable for all - not just those in certain ZIP codes or tax brackets.”

“Mom somehow made it to every one of my graduations - even when it meant she had to travel far away.”

“My mom never went to college, but for her own children, getting a great education was not an option.”

“I started school in public housing. My dad had a sixth-grade education.”

“As far back as the 1800s, people were moving to Florida to make their dreams come true.”

“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the me...”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.”

“I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,I see my father strolling outunder the ochre sandstone arch, thered tiles glinting like bentplates of blood behind his head, Isee my mother...”

“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...”

“Id never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.”

“I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.”

“Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.”

“Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'”