The physician must not only be the healer, but often the consoler.

It is high time that the women of Republican America should know how much the laws that govern them are like the slave laws ofthe South.

The menopause of Sarah became her menostart

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

In the world a man lives in his own age in solitude in all ages.

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.

I think that through the narratives of other people you get closer to your own.

Coming through the years, and finding that I not only have just the fans of my day, but the young ones of today - that's what it means, it means it was worth all of it.

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different.

but i know blue only blue lonely blue without you