I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.

We're the real estate industry - not the manufacturers.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.

I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.

More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.

Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

Savor every little bit of life and spin your own wonderfully beautiful web.

Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.

I'm weak cause I believe you and I'm mad because I love.

To have compromise you must first have dialog. That is the true path of democracy.

Booze is flowing all unknowing; grandma downs a few, smiles and giggles happily enjoying her new brew.

Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.

The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool?