To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.

There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.

Commerce unites; religion divides.

Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.

We are fast moving toward an aristocracy of health.

How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.

we've got to find a better way to handle the expense of disease. Odd as it may seem, the more efficient we become in eliminating disease, the more our services are out of reach of the people.

What is memory for if not to fortify and sustain?

nothing is so binding as pity.

It is easy to give up than to endure. Always choose the latter.

If you understood everything I said, you’d be me

Tequila! Would you not think fallen angels would be immune to it." "Fallen, hate that word! I prefer..misplaced

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient

I usually tell somebody if a song’s for them. I don’t always tell them if it’s about them.

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.

People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

I've been a vegetarian for a while now and I try to give my body plenty of what it craves.