... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.

True hope has no room for delusion.

That’s what it means to be out of your mind. To let yourself be carried away by a dream. To give it room, let it grow wild and thick, until it overruns you.

Once one follows the ideals of any specific ideology, they lose some ability to see the world outside of those pre-filtered glasses.

I want to gossip about forever / against the part of your back that / is mine.

Some girls barely speak, but always askin' for a dollar.

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder . . . .

But what we found in the study is that churches are ten times less diverse than the neighborhoods they sit in. So there's something more going on than just reflecting the neighborhood, yeah.

The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.