There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure

I eat super healthy and I'm super fit. I dabble in every type of fitness. I have a trainer and I go to the gym. I do yoga as well.

In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.

The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.

Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

I'm half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

A cheerful demeanor makes brighter the day; as the sun, chasing darkness and sorrow away.