Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts. Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.

The person who has the most to do what happens to you in life is you. Not somebody else and not the environment.

We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.

But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.