Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.

Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?

Your actions reveals your thoughts.

The key to success is to first know thyself. The definition of success by another person must not paralyse you or make you think less of your potential to succeed in your own way.

Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of scarifice

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't

There were a handful of shows that were just painful. Not many, but things where I just said going into it, "Why am I here? What am I doing?"

[Hillary Clinton] telling the enemy everything you want to do. No wonder you've been fighting - no wonder you've been fighting ISIS your entire adult life.

I urge all young people to go for their dreams. If they do, many of the world’s problems will be solved.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

I'll just say that I made my own explorations of tone by listening to a tone for a long time until I began to understand what my sensations were, what my mind was doing with tone.

How many ya'll parents smoke weed? My momma still grows illegal weed in Alabama.