Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.

There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.

Commerce unites; religion divides.

To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.

We are fast moving toward an aristocracy of health.

How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.

we've got to find a better way to handle the expense of disease. Odd as it may seem, the more efficient we become in eliminating disease, the more our services are out of reach of the people.

What is memory for if not to fortify and sustain?

nothing is so binding as pity.

What makes a family is neither the absence of tragedy nor the ability to hide from misfortune, but the courage to overcome it and, from that broken past, write a new beginning.

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. -The Subjection of Women

Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do anything else.

To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures.

There's some sad things known to man, but ain't too much sadder than, the tears of a clown when noones around.

Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

I think American audiences like gangster movies. It's part of the culture.