Unfortunately, loving someone doesn't obligate them to love you back

People can't change. We're pre-programmed robots going through the motions. We're the same at death as we are at birth.

I'd just done the most important thing a person can ever do. I'd made life. At the very instant he was put into my arms, I loved this new person more than anyone but a mother can understand.

Old Age- You can tell when you're getting old when you stop taking drugs for fun and start taking them to keep you alive.-character Jackson Rockenberger (Broken)

Happiness is the silent purpose of all existence.

For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.

There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.

The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.

A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.

I never had the chutzpah to just come to L.A. and make it. I didn't have that confidence. I'm always surprised when I get a job.

If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.

Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war.