Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being---surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

Geography is destiny.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

Being the first born gives you great patience.

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

Well don't you know the sound of anger brings a dark result.And every insult is like a lightning bolt.

An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of long-term deficit reduction.

The two most powerful things in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture.

We can drink soup with a fork, it will only take long time! As long as we are patient, we can drink it even with a tiny pin!

When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

much of gardening is a struggle against the fecundity of Nature.

Everyone's under pressure and you just have to learn how to deal with it. And I deal with it through prayer and staying busy.