The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.

After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.

It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.

The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it.

For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart.

We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence.

His [Morel's] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out.

Destiny is defined by your choices, decisions, and determination.

Confidence is a magnet to success.

All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand, and the times it is not.

Whatever people see - TV in my mind forms people's opinions.

Dogs seem more photogenic than cats. In photos most cats look like sociopaths.

You better not mess with chimps. They are much stronger than humans.

I wanted so badly to tell him, but something about that entire night seemed so beautiful, so bizarre, that I didn't trust it with my secrets.

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

I would like to do something really big and then something really small, and see what it's like to work in that way, but in front of a live audience.

Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?