The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin.

I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.

Aristotle and many others say men have more teeth than women; it is no harder for anyone to test this than it is for me to say it is false, since no one is prevented from counting teeth.

It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.

The world is not fair. That's why it needs heroes. Play fair. Be a hero.

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.

I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.

Our [former] governor [Pat McCrory] was supposed to be a moderate, but he found himself beholden to people who have much more draconian ideas. I think he assumed this stuff flew under the radar.

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.