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.

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

Commerce unites; religion divides.

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

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.

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.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Love is not control, Logan. Love is partnership. Friendship. A wise man once said, 'If you want to be loved, be lovable.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.

This is what storytelling gets you. You make things up that aren't real, and then get upset when they don't turn out as expected.

Weetzie wished she could shake blue glitter around all of them - keeping them sparkling and safe.

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

Every breath you take, you are getting closer to the grave. But every breath you take, you can also get closer to your liberation.

If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest.

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

I can remember that little thrill - that little shiver of excitement - when the Opry audience would encore a person because that person had touched them so.