There is some reason to believe there is greater safety in this branch of medicine from modest unassuming ignorance than from a meddling presumption which frequently accompanies a little learning.

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.

A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation

If my goals and victories can help the world remember Chernobyl and bring a smile to the face of the people still suffering then I dedicate all my success to them.

You cannot keep doing the same thing, the same way, and keep expecting something different to happen.

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.

I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter.

Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?

Men should spend less time with guns and more time in childbirth.

I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.