Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it

School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.

Up to a certain point anxiety is good, for it promotes action. Beyond that point we freeze any fixed attitudes or rush about without thinking deeply from one decision to another.

A competitive culture endures by tearing people down.

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals

We must be grateful every time we witness a new morning, feel the touch of a loved one, or are blessed with the briefest sound of life.

I had the metabolism of a hummingbird on crack.

NASCAR fans are very knowledgeable and very passionate.

Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

Genius is both the sail and the wind; that's why he continues his journey without stopping!

First blood is mine. Last blood counts for more. --Artemis Entreri and Drizzt Do'Urden

As long as something is happening it really does not matter if it is of God, of man or of the devil.

You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman.

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

There's no Walter Cronkite to give you the final word each evening.