I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

I went to a lecture of [Arthur Koestler ] once, I never met him.

Under the British healthcare system, there is a commission that decides whether or not, based on your age and physical condition, the government should continue to pay for your health.

Every life is different; being pro-life is not only about saving the fetus, being pro-life is about all the stages of life.

The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.

He - A.J.[Muste] never got much credit, never got much attention. For example, I wrote a biography of him and nobody ever heard of it.

A woman in the audience asked [Barack] Obama about her mother. Her mother was 101 years old and was in need of a certain kind of procedure. Her doctor didn't want to do it because of her age. However, another doctor did and told this woman there is a joy of life in this person. The woman asked President Obama how he would deal with this sort of thing, and Obama said we cannot consider the joy of life in this situation. He said I would advise her to take a pain killer. That is the essence of the President of the United States.