For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

The Democratic Party believes that health insurance is a social responsibility of the nation. I believe that health insurance is an individual responsibility. And that's a really hard philosophy to mesh.

I think people who become compulsive about fitness or eating right, a lot of the time it's out of fear that they're going to lose control or that they're not good enough, so I think anything done out of fear or motivated by fear is often unhealthy.

I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me.

I'm not regimented. I don't diet, and I exercise the way I want to.