Doctor, I appreciate your diagnosis, but I will not accept your verdict

Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.