The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

Width of life is more important than length of life.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.

Evening work is economical. Power comes most cheaply by night.

The heart of woman is like a diamond, who need a good skilled hunter.

You may have a guardian angel, but I have a uzzi.You work out who's gunna come out on top!

Marriage is a unique cultural relationship that has a long-standing tradition and societal meaning, which should not be redefined by the courts.

That is what art is at the end of the day: It's an escapism that we all crave.

There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned.

Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission.

I was knocked out by a skateboarder when I was 11.

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).

The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.