"For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered."

"President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people."

"Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one."

"If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe."

"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself."

"Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness."

"You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content."

"Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health."