I never had money for anything. But I tell you what did really work - books. Between the covers of those books I could go anyplace, I could be anybody, I could do anything.

I struggled academically throughout elementary school

When I was 14, I tried to stab someone.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.

When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.