I would go visit my mom on Sundays and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.

My mom was truly an iconic figure a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth bluntly directly and without much varnish. I am her son.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help not even Mom's.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Although I do wrong I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature like other men. No man lives without fault.

It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men we've got rockets we've got saran wrap - fix it!

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split as a general thing.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains at the huge waves of the sea at the long courses of the rivers at the vast compass of the ocean at the circular motions of the stars and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Without feelings of respect what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination.

Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch but should I fall ill during my travels a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.

Without true medical liability reform our doctors will continue to leave and young doctors coming out of medical school $100 000 to $200 000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs.

The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job.

Today all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of and for those without insurance all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.

Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.

The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.