Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Big results require big ambitions.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Change alone is unchanging.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

Forever and always from me to you. My love is pure, my love is true. It is gifted to none other than you.

The older I get the less I care what other people think of me. Therefore the older I get the more I enjoy life.

Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.

The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson's education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed people to take books home to read them.

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.

Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.

There is no sin worse in life than being boring.