Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

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.

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.