Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Prodigy was definitely family... It definitely sucks not to have him here.

I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.

A Grateful Dead concert is much more than the music: it's an experience, almost like being in a family of thousands of people.