It ain't easy to do nothing, now that society is telling everyone that their body is fundamentally flawed and about to self-destruct. People are afraid they're on the verge of death all the time

There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.

The patient is the one with the disease

Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them.

To do nothing for the gomers was to do something, and the more conscientiously I did nothing the better they got.

Victory is forged in the heart.

The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things

All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.

We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.

Say it. But..." "But what?" he asked. She whispered it, sounding too vulnerable. "But only if its the truth, Caine. Only. If." "I love you," he said.

Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.

Good things soon find a purchaser.

There is no greater mercy than to remind and inspire people to study the fear of God.