Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations.

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.

Out of too much learning become mad.

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.

He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.

Naught so sweet as melancholy.

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.

There were lies, and there were lies. Was a secret a lie? If one wanted to protect another?

Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly make a difference in this world.

I stared at my lap. I wished I were confident, I wished I were brave. I wished he didn’t scare me. But the more he spoke the less I wanted to look away, and the more I did.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's

I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.

The girls look like they are a band already - the boys don't

You can teach what you know, but you can only reproduce what you are.

Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.

Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.