Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

History repeats, but science reverberates.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.

Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.

One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.

If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.

Only a fool is always right.

Guys are always confused by how soft and sentimental they are.

Man’s primary purpose is not to be happy but to continue to live, to continue to travel - happily or unhappily - on the path of life!

We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.

Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.

I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that.

Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.

We live with a future where every three or four months, we have to question everything. You think you could be the best, or that you're nothing and you don't know what you're doing. It is exhausting.

From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."

You cannot read the Bible and ignore the political realm.