...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and vomited everywhere.

Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.

I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.

We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.

She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked.

Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?

The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.

Not living your life is just like killing yourself, only it takes longer.

I have gotten where I am today by refusing to stay where I was. Change is something I have done over and over again.

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.

My soul, how will I recognize you if we meet?

Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.

Something the committee had not done in 50 years. Jeff Sessions is now the Chairman of the Committee that rejected him.

Live and let live is not enough; live and help live is not too much.

The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.

It really is fascinating stuff, and I've picked it up on Scrubs. Memorizing lines is at least as hard as studying a text book, I mean, by this point I know about as much as most 'real' doctors.