I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

Do you believe in God, doctor?"No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.

We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them.

But memory is less disposed to compromise

It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.

Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.

A sad lesson that was mine to learn is that you can't lose what was never truly yours. Nor can you hold to things that simply do not wish to be held.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

Whatever thing the mind can imagine, the eyes can see, the hands will soon handle.

The cheese stands aloneThe cheese stands aloneHeigh-ho the merry-oThe cheese stands alone

I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.

Everything that can be and everything that cannot be exists somewhere.

I can think. I can wait. I can fast.

There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don't coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?

I think the thing with Medicare - and a lot of this - I should say, with Medicaid - and this is going to depend - states are going to be in a position to have a lot of flexibility.

No man can be convinced when he will not.