It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.

If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no patients to cure.

I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

My lectures were highly esteemed, but my operations less thought of, so that I am of opinion that my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it.

How come a boy can be so stupid, but a Daddy, who actually used to be a BOY himself, can be so wonderful?

I am grateful for every adversity, I learn to depend more on God.

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

We can't depend on consumers to spend money they don't have on stuff they don't need, so the government has to do it for them

I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.

I'm not a very social person. I'm interested in music and I'm obviously tight with my family - my daughter. I'm not at the club hanging out at night. I'm at home making records.

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.

He's getting dumped. And he doesn't even know it yet. He's probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he has no idea. No inkling.