Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies

Life gets boring with only humans to talk to.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily one thing leading to another in an endless series.

In medical school, you're taught to write in this convoluted, Latinate way. I knew the vocabulary as well as anyone, but I would write kidney instead of nephric. I insisted on using English.

But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging oneself.

Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman.

Know that the most neurotic, most ugly situation is simply testing you. It is testing capacity, beyond his control, your flexibility, your adjustment and your character.

You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'

I think we have every reason to hope for the best but expect and prepare for the worst.