Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

He who angers you conquers you.

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.

As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.

It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.

His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.

Memories do not always behave in an orderly way, but bloom, as it were, erratically.

My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.

You've got to create the space, then fill it.

Good-bye is always hello to something else. Good-bye/hello, good-bye/hello, like the sound of a rocking chair.

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort.

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice.