Over the years, Americans have worked hard to expand the values our nation was founded on - justice, freedom, equality - to every person, regardless of race, gender, or socioeconomic status.

I grew up, went to the Virginia Military Institute and then medical school, married my wife Pam, served in the United States Army, and moved back to Hampton Roads.

Every year, I volunteer with Remote Area Medical mobile clinics to provide care to folks in rural Virginia. They do incredible work. But I'm the first to admit that treating people once a year at an annual clinic isn't the ideal way to provide healthcare. We should be investing in long-term, permanent solutions to rural health.

America is a melting pot. Our diversity is our strength.

As a graduate of Virginia Military Institute and a veteran of the United States Army, it is important that we celebrate and support our citizen-soldiers.

Progress in our country has always been too slow, and creating change has always been difficult, but we must continue marching towards those ideals written in our founding documents - that all people are to be treated equally under our laws.

Lucknow's architecture is a part of life in the city.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.