The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

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.

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.

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

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

Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written.

What is not worth understanding is not knowing.

To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?

some kinds of beauty did not heal, but hollowed the pain even deeper.

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand?

The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.

Well, that kind of puts a damper on even a Yankee win.