The common people say, that physicians are the class of people who kill other men in the most polite and courteous manner.

Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.

Let him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.

He who will not when he may, may not when he will.

A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.

Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.

Take hold of your passing time and convert it into living your dreams.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

Because this is how it feels to live my life: scattered, fragmented, and exhausting.

My petite little platinum blonde beauty of a wife suddenly turned into a public-relations dynamo. "The business is Buzz!" she proclaimed, and indeed so it became.

Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size.

Power has destroyed many people - not really. Power doesn't destroy anyone. People apply it poorly and it can ruin their lives. Power is like fire. Fire is neither good nor bad. It's how you use it.

I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.

If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch.

I've always been a fan of music. I would say I'm a fan of late '90s to early 2000s rap. That's where I get all my inspiration from.

You can see a lot just by observing.