Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.

Remember that nothing is so damaging to self-esteem as waiting for a telephone or door-bell that doesn't ring.

there are hundreds who don't know the difference between a cleansing cream and an emollient - which to our minds is practically the same as being illiterate.

It is a regrettable, but undeniable, fact that the most delightful people are seldom big money-makers.

Dreams are maps to the future.

Laughter was like an enormous trap waiting patiently in the room with them

Choices are exhibited through the notions of free will, temptation challenges them.

We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.

Every war is different. Every war is the same.

The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of our lives demanding a beginning, middle and end.

The amount of people who talk about guns, versus who actually uses them, is not even close in this millennium.

No one is so eager to gain new experiences as he who doesn't know how to make use of the old ones.

When you're inspired you attract abundance.

It really is fascinating stuff, and I've picked it up on Scrubs. Memorizing lines is at least as hard as studying a text book, I mean, by this point I know about as much as most 'real' doctors.