Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.

Everyone needs to have support from people who care about them, but ultimately if we don’t work hard and do our part, those dreams are nothing but wishes, fantasy.

The shortest path is not always the fastest.

...there was a certain comfort in surrender.

I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.

We have God's joy in our blood.

The sum total of karma is God.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

You need to accept responsibility for your mistakes. And I've done that.

But when Bumby nursed, his fist clutching the fabric of my robe, his eyes soft and bottomless and locked on mine, as if I were the very heart of his universe, I couldn't help but melt into him.