We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.

I have a husband who adores me.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.