The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.

We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.