Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world and am free.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way you will command the attention of the world.

To get away from poverty you need several things at the same time: school health and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side you need market opportunities information employment and human rights.

My cooking philosophy what I try to do is to make a cuisine where the produce and the product shines compared to some current trends that are maybe more adding additional things like molecular cuisine with a lot of additives and chemicals which are now showing that they could be bad for your health.

Well my view is that the insurance companies have done awfully well and spent a lot of money on a lot of things that don't have anything to do with health care.

We see tremendous excitement from small-business people about the administration and about the attention and commitment that the president has to do things that really make a difference. I think they recognize that health care is one of those. I think they recognize that what we've been doing in the Recovery Act with our loan programs has mattered.

I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a full-time job worry about health insurance saving money paying rent - things I'd never thought about before.