In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

Width of life is more important than length of life.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

Life gives us problems not to break us but to test our strength!

In life, those with heart certainly outdo those with ‘smart’.

When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere.

we’re too old to be young.

I wondered if having conversations with your dog was less crazy than babbling to yourself when no one else was around. I guess it depended on whether or not the dog answered.

Churches and trains they all look the same to me now they shoot you some place while we ache to come home somehow.

I'd be just incredibly humbled and honored to be the first woman president.

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.

Plus, humor ws a good way to hide the pain. And if that didn't work, there was always Plan B. Run aaway. Over and over.

A man who marries at my age isn't taking a wife, he's indenturing a nurse.