Achievement is its own reward
We have in Tennessee a number of wonderful faith-based clinics to serve the uninsured. It is an important principle with them that everyone pays something as they are able.
The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.
Washington, D. C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.
Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.
The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.
Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.
I want to see Haiti do better. We have the sun everywhere: that's a big asset. We have wonderful coasts, beautiful islands, mountains. Other countries that have that are known for it, but Haiti has been so focused inwards, on its problems.
Would you truly sleep with strangers?" "I don't know, I haven't met the strangers yet.
One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.
I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.